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The Stanley Matthews Story
by Matthews, Stanley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
-
Carmarthen, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Olbourne. Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with silver-gilt titling to the spine. Spine bumped/faded to the head/tail with light 'patching' to the overall sound, tight covers. A large pinkish stain to the rear cover. Corners similarly 'bumped' from storage. Some light 'toning/slight marks/pale spotting' to the page fore-edges, mainly to the top edge. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket. The d/j is chipped with some small loss to the corners/head/tail of the spine, but is now neatly repaired to the reverse of the d/j with clear archive tape, and slightly tinted where necessary, but is NOT price clipped and is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks Very Good. Internally Overall Good/Very Good. Clean and Tight, although the last few pages heve some tn foxing (pale spotting) to the blank page edges. NO Inscriptions. 256 pp. Black and white frontispiece and 14 b/w plates - one plate with 2 images. Overall Good/Good Plus. See Images.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 119764
- Title
- The Stanley Matthews Story
- Author
- Matthews, Stanley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Olbourne
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- Soccer, The Stanley Matthews Story By Stanley Matthews Himself. Football, England International Player, Stoke City, Port Vale, Blackpool, World Cup
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sport & Games/Chess;
Terms of Sale
Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
Payment: 94 St Catherine Street, Carmarthen, SA31 1RF, UK Tel:+ 44(0)1267235462 The cost of books are given in sterling. The cost of books are given in sterling. Payments to me direct may be via PayPal or CC via PayPal (you do NOT have to have a Paypal account to pay by Credit Card) ; By Paypal (Official PP Invoice sent on request): Personal (Sterling) Cheque or Bank Transfer (UK/Europe ONLY), or Cash (Sterling only). Orders usually ship within 2 business days. Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 LB, or 1 KG. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required. All items posted by Airmail Overseas or by Standard (Second class post) in the UK unless requested otherwise. We will post abroad by whatever method you request but the standard is by Airmail. Proof of posting certificates are obtained for all books posted. Postal delivery times are ESTIMATES not Guarantees!. Parcels are NOT "Tracked" - We provide PROOF OF POSTING, NOT PROOF OF DELIVERY. All postings are insured. We normally post twice/three times weekly, although we can provide a speedier service for an extra cost. Tracking is also available at an extra cost, please enquire, but these charges will be considerably higher than our advertised rates. If unhappy with a purchase, a full refund will be given if returned within 14 days, in the same condition that it left us.
About the Seller
Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
Biblio member since 2006
Carmarthen
About Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
Retired Member of the P.B.F.A, and the WBA. In business for 42+ years to date, mainly working from home nowadays, and formerly exhibiting at Major London Book Fairs, and some Provincial ones within reach of the M4! View by Appointment ONLY Please, as I may be unavailable on the day you call. Happy to see customers but they have to be able to squeeze through the book aisles/piles! Unfortunately no wheelchair access. Currently only working part-time.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
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- 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...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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