The Barrakee Mystery
by UPFIELD, ARTHUR
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
William Heinemann 1965. FIRST EDITION, octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 326pp, VG (sl bruising to extrems, light fading & staining to spine & board edges, sl soiling to rear board, spine cocked, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, sm ink annotations to verso of title page) in d/w, VG (minor creasing & chipping to edges with sturdy but ugly tape reinforcement, moderate fading & chipping/closed tearing to spine, moderate soiling)
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- Title
- The Barrakee Mystery
- Author
- UPFIELD, ARTHUR
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Heinemann 1965
- Keywords
- modern first editions literature novels fiction Arthur W Upfield
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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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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...
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