semi-Precious Stones
by Wooster, N
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Poor
- Seller
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Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Middlesex: Penguin, 1952. Dust jacket edgeworn, corners and spine ends bumped and chipped with loss to foot of spine, closed tear to foot of spine 6cms, spine edges worn, spine browned, title box to front cover lightly rubbed, boards clean and tidy, corners and spine ends lightly bumped, pp clean and bright, 16 colour plates by Arthur Smith bright, internal gutters cracked between plates 8 and 9 otherwise string binding sound.. Hard. Very Good/Poor. Illus. by Smith, Arthur. 12mo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookcase (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 74179
- Title
- semi-Precious Stones
- Author
- Wooster, N
- Illustrator
- Smith, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- Middlesex
- Date Published
- 1952
- Size
- 12mo
Terms of Sale
Bookcase
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Bookcase
Biblio member since 2009
Carlisle, Cumbria
About Bookcase
A Georgian four-floor antiquarian bookshop in Carlisle's historic quarter specialising in Cumbria, Scotland, Mountaineering and rare finds. We are a friendly business, which was started by a local family and is run by friendly and experienced team members.
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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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...