Chinese Poems
by Arthur Waley
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1956. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1956. Third Impression. 213 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some bumping and fraying to corners and some tanning and marking. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with large tears, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1701686181MXP
- Title
- Chinese Poems
- Author
- Arthur Waley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George Allen and Unwin Ltd
- Date Published
- 1956
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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....
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...