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UNDER JANE'S WINGS
by ELLEN BARBARA FLOWER
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: EDWARD ARNOLD, 1936 Turquoise cloth boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, 225 x 150 mm approx. Maps to end papers, top edge stained green, 314 pp. Frontis + 21 other b/w photo illustrations on 15 glossy plates + One other line map all as called for. First Edition 1936. Account of a leisurely voyage by the author and her husband in a 50 foot,30 ton ex pilot cutter round France and Spain. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG/ Good (Book- mild shelf wear- colour rubbing to cloth, offset browning band to half title and rear blank. No previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket - rubbed to extremities with a few small chips - max 1 x 1 cm approx to head at rear spine fold. Colour leaching to top margin of rear flap fold from a liquid spillage else no notable soiling. Price clipped. Now in a removable proprietary protective sleeve). A seemingly scarce travel book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 130164
- Title
- UNDER JANE'S WINGS
- Author
- ELLEN BARBARA FLOWER
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- EDWARD ARNOLD
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- Under Jane's Wings, Ellen Barbara Flower, 30 ton Cutter, Maritime Books, Sailing, Travel, Rare books,
Terms of Sale
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
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