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Scholar-Gipsies
by John Buchan
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1927. Hardcover. Good. 1927. First Edition Thus. 242 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Ex libris plate at front. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Some marks and staining to surfaces. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1705560429ALK
- Title
- Scholar-Gipsies
- Author
- John Buchan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John Lane, the Bodley Head
- Date Published
- 1927
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
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- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
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