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Christmas at Nettleford
by Malcolm Saville
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Tarrington, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: The Children's Book Club, 1953. Reprint . Fair. 5.75 x 7.75 inches (14 x 19.5 cm). Children's Book Club edition, issued in the same year as the first edition. Lacking jacket. Dark blue cloth binding. Marking and slight fading to boards. Spine faded and has wear to ends. Heavy browning to pages, staining to a few pages. Light foxing to endpapers, previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. A solid reading copy of the second novel in Saville's Nettleford series. Hard to find in any edition. Overall condition is Fair. Size: 5.75 x 7.75 inches (14 x 19.5 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 192
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Details
- Seller
- Tarrington Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1206E028
- Title
- Christmas at Nettleford
- Author
- Malcolm Saville
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Children's Book Club
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1953
- Size
- 5.75 x 7.75 inches (14 x 19.5 cm
- Keywords
- , Childrens
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
Terms of Sale
Tarrington Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Tarrington Books
Biblio member since 2015
Tarrington, Herefordshire
About Tarrington Books
A family run bookshop located in the heart of rural Herefordshire. Large selection of children's literature, crime fiction, military, history, travel, vintage paperbacks, quality antiquarian volumes & fine bindings. We offer free UK postage on all items and pride ourselves on our safe packaging and rapid dispatch of orders. Browsers welcome by appointment.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
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