Phoenix at Coventry: The Building of a Cathedral
by Spence, Basil
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good +
- Seller
-
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Geoffrey Bles Ltd, 1962 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo. Large 8vo. xvii (i), 141 (1) pp, illus. Reprinted, October 1962. Price clipped. Light wear and partial age-toning dj. Light dust line top text block with faintly bumped bottom front fore-edge tips, else, Pristine, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 7" x 9.25". Illustrated light-olive green cloth with black title plate and gilt lettering to spine, and decorative end papers. Illustrated dj in acetate protector..
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Details
- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6884
- Title
- Phoenix at Coventry: The Building of a Cathedral
- Author
- Spence, Basil
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Geoffrey Bles Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- ARCHITECTURE HISTORY GREAT BRITAIN CATHEDRALS DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION
- Bookseller catalogs
- ARCHITECTURE;
- Size
- Large 8vo
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...