Faber and Faber Limited, 1954. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1954. First Edition. 163 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over purple cloth. Signed by the author with dedication to front free endpaper. Colour photographic plates. Minor foxing and tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Annotations, underlining and marginalia in red and blue pencil throughout; text remains unaffected. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild sunning, mottling and scuffing overall. Spine has similar sunning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped dust jacket with moderate rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate tanning and scuffing overall.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1713526952LEE
Title: The Pebbles on the Beach
Author: Clarence Ellis
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good/Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Faber and Faber Limited
Date Published: 1954

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Marginalia: Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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...
First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
Chipping: A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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...