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The Violins of Saint-Jacques
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
Item Price
A$97.08A$72.81
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About This Item
The Violins of Saint-Jacques by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Hardback, 1953, first edition, first print, published by John Murray/Derek Verschoyle, London, 139 pages.
Measures 8 7/8" by 5 3/4 by 3/4". Dust jacket has upper sections of front cover area and spine torn and missing, with some chipping to rear and tearing at edges. Also marking and scuffing to jacket with disclouration to spine area. A removable clearsleeve dust jacket cover has been applied to prevent further degradation. Green cloth binding with faded gilt lettering to spine, considerable discolouration towards upper edge of front board (with a little foxing) and to extremities generally and spine. Binding reasonably firm. Page edges browned, scuffed, a little foxed and otherwise marked. Some marking and a little foxing to endpapers, occasional light foxing throughout and some library signs, markings, but pages contain no marginalia, underlining, etc. See pictures for more information.
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Details
- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIBLIO-048
- Title
- The Violins of Saint-Jacques
- Author
- Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Murray/Derek Verschoyle
- Place of Publication
- London
- Pages
- 139
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Novel
Terms of Sale
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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
GN Books and Prints
Biblio member since 2022
Inverness, Highland
About GN Books and Prints
Seller based in the Scottish Highlands, dealing in a variety of books, including antiquarian, vintage and modern.
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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- 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...
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