Calling the Tune
by McCarthy, J Huntly
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hurst and Blackett, 1913. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 1913 first edition hardback in fair condition. A little foxing to page edges and some early pages. Some marking to p.111 slightly obscures some text. There is a plate and a stamp to the inside cover (but this is not an ex-library book). The binding is tight and even. The red cloth boards have rubbing to edges and some fraying to spine edges, corners rather worn, but still tight and solid. No dust jacket. Items are dispatched the same or the following working day. Please note our excellent customer feedback.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Repton and Clover
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009671
- Title
- Calling the Tune
- Author
- McCarthy, J Huntly
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Hurst and Blackett
- Date Published
- 1913
Terms of Sale
Repton and Clover
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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