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Best of Friends: Further Letters to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell
by Viola Meynell (ed)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/Good+
- Seller
-
Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Rupert Hart-Davis, London; first edition, 1956. The boards, in green cloth, have rubbing and light edgewear. The top edge of the text block has been discoloured slightly by dust. Internally, the book is clean and bright and tightly bound. There are no markings or inscriptions. The jacket has spotting to front and back and minor edgewear at both ends of spine. The front cover has been sunned along the top and righthand edges (there is also sunning to the extremely lefthand edge of the back cover, and the edges of both flaps). There is a tear about an inch long at top right of front cover that has been taped. Jacket is in protective wrapper.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rob Gibson Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2510/E/1
- Title
- Best of Friends: Further Letters to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell
- Author
- Viola Meynell (ed)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Rupert Hart-Davis
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1956
Terms of Sale
Rob Gibson Books
30 day return guarantee - if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged I will give a full refund, including original shipping costs, if the item is returned within 30 days of delivery.
About the Seller
Rob Gibson Books
Biblio member since 2017
Winchester, Hampshire
About Rob Gibson Books
Book indexer and part-time secondhand bookseller specialising in published letters and diaries of major and minor historical and literary figures.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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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