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The Valley of Desire
by Airlie, Catherine
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
-
nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Mills & Boon, 1955. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1st edition, 1st impression, 192pp. Brown cloth boards with Mills and Boon motif in corner (lightly worn at edges, a few marks). Slightly cocked. Lending sheet on front free endpaper, no other library markings. Occasional spotting. In its original dust jacket (bumped along upper edge, spine crease, shelf wear, ink runs on verso suggesting old water damage). Dust jacket supplied in archival-quality mylar wrapper to protect and prolong the life of the jacket. It is not adhered to the book or to the dust jacket. Scarce title, especially so in its dust jacket (although there was a later paperback reprintin 1975). Catherine Airlie was the pseudonym of Jean S Macleod. She also wrote romantic fiction for Mills and Boon under her real name and was a member of the Romantic Novelist's Association, where she met Barbara Cartland who was by all accounts, none too friendly towards her.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001907
- Title
- The Valley of Desire
- Author
- Airlie, Catherine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Impression
- Publisher
- Mills & Boon
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- romantic fiction, mills and boon
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
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About the Seller
BookAddiction
Biblio member since 2021
nr Canterbury, Kent
About BookAddiction
Based in the leafy hamlet of Chartham Hatch, just a few miles from the historic Cathedral city of Canterbury, BookAddiction offers beautiful, illustrated and collectible used books and a selection of unique works on paper.BookAddiction was established in 1999 (originally trading as The Virtual Bookshelf). We are members of the book-selling co-operation, Ibooknet, which extends the highest professional and ethical standards, and are in the process of joining the Provincial Booksellers' Fairs Association (PBFA).Follow our blog, on books and book collecting at www.bookaddictionuk.wordpress.uk or visit our website at www.bookaddiction.co.uk.We welcome inquiries about our books and endeavour to respond promptly. Please ask away, Offers always welcome.
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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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
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