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Black Jack
by Leon Garfield
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Longmans Young Books, 1970. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1970. Third Impression. 199 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Illustrated dust jacket over dark grey cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. There is also black and white illustrated plates. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and visible foxing and dog-eared pages throughout. Moderate tanning to text block edges and front hinge is cracked with exposed netting. Boards have mild rubbing and visible bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and jacket is stuck to the rear board. Unclipped jacket with moderate edge wear and rubbing. There is visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends.
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Details
- Seller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1647500128CHR
- Title
- Black Jack
- Author
- Leon Garfield
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Longmans Young Books
- Date Published
- 1970
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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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....
- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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