The Oaken Heart
by ALLINGHAM, Margery
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good+
- Seller
-
Auckland, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Michael Joseph, 1942 Red cloth titled in silver on spine with vignette on front board. Tidy cover, tight bindings, light foxing in edges and endpapers, lengthy(but neat) inscription in front endpaper, tidy pages. Dust jacket is price clipped, lightly foxed, tiny gaps at spine ends and corners and rear bottom edge, in a clear film protective sleeve. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mainly Fiction
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007691
- Title
- The Oaken Heart
- Author
- ALLINGHAM, Margery
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Fourth Impression.
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1942
Terms of Sale
Mainly Fiction
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About the Seller
Mainly Fiction
Biblio member since 2005
Auckland
About Mainly Fiction
We are a home-based business trading successfully for several years.New Zealand is a great source for the categories of books we are trading in.
Glossary
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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