Babel
by Cournos, John
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: William Heinemann, 1923. Boards rubbed and stained in places, corners and spine ends lightly bumped, spine stained and worn, closed edges browned and spotted, small bookseller's label to foot of front pastedown, feint pencil inscription to fep, foxing to endpapers, spotting to title page and to edges of pages, small creases to head of closed reading edges (pages 34-83), pages clean, text clear to read, pp secure in binding.. First Edition. Cloth Covered Boards. Fair. 12mo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookcase
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 75267
- Title
- Babel
- Author
- Cournos, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1923
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
- Size
- 12mo
Terms of Sale
Bookcase
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
Bookcase
Biblio member since 2009
Carlisle, Cumbria
About Bookcase
A Georgian four-floor antiquarian bookshop in Carlisle's historic quarter specialising in Cumbria, Scotland, Mountaineering and rare finds. We are a friendly business, which was started by a local family and is run by friendly and experienced team members.
Glossary
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- 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...
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
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