The Breaking of the Seals
by Francis Ashton
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
-
Altamonte Springs, Florida, United States
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About This Item
London: Andrew Dakers Limited, 1946 A first edition of the author's first novel.Jacket art by Hans Tisdell.317 pages.The brown cloth covers are lightly worn. The edges of the text block and the endpapers are foxed. The text is clean and unmarked. The price clipped jacket is heavily worn on the edges. The reverse of the jacket is soiled and foxed.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hastings of Coral Springs (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- poulsen4
- Title
- The Breaking of the Seals
- Author
- Francis Ashton
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Andrew Dakers Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- SCIENCE FICTION
- Bookseller catalogs
- SCIENCE FICTION;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Hastings of Coral Springs
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About the Seller
Hastings of Coral Springs
Biblio member since 2010
Altamonte Springs, Florida
About Hastings of Coral Springs
Independent internet bookstore since 2001. I offer a wide variety of unusual and out of print offerings. I strive for accuracy in descriptions and will do my utmost for customer satisfaction.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...