After Rome, Africa: A Novel of Suspense
by Brian Glanville
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Secker & Warburg, 1959. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1959. First Edition. 240 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth. Moderate foxing, tape residue and tanning to pages with front endpaper missing and slight dog-eared pages throughout. Fair tanning to text block edges. Boards have mild rubbing and visible bumping to corners. Soft crushing to spine ends. Jacket is stuck to boards. Unclipped jacket with visible edge wear and rubbing. There is visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1645775249ADA
- Title
- After Rome, Africa: A Novel of Suspense
- Author
- Brian Glanville
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Secker & Warburg
- Date Published
- 1959
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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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- 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....