The Breaking Point: Eight Stories
by Daphne du Maurier
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1959. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1959. No Edition Remarks. 287 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Both hinges are cracked with exposed netting and cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Heavier foxing and tanning to text block edges. Boards have visible bleach spotting and rubbing. Heavier bumping to corners and major crushing to spine ends. Visible sunning to spine and splitting to joints.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1646312382EMB
- Title
- The Breaking Point: Eight Stories
- Author
- Daphne du Maurier
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz Ltd
- Date Published
- 1959
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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- 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....
- 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...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 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,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...