United Kingdom: Jonathan Cape/The Book Society. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1954. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good 1st Edition hardcover in Fair dustjacket. Red cloth boards, bumped and rubbed to spine ends and corners. Small damp stain to lower rear board. Spine slightly cocked. Some light foxing and tanning to text block edges. Internally, owner's signature inked neatly to front endpaper. Clean, lightly toned pages. Unclipped dustjacket bumped, rubbed and chipped to extremities, with some loss to spine ends - supplied in a new removable archival sleeve. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 257 pages .

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Bookseller: The Old Bookshelf (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 59184
Title: THE FAITHFUL ALLY
Author: Linklater, Eric
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good in Fair dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: Jonathan Cape/The Book Society
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
Date Published: 1954
Keywords: General Fiction

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Welcome to the home of The Old Bookshelf, situated in Campbeltown on the West Coast of Scotland. Our wee bookshop holds over 15,000 New, Antiquarian, Out of Print and Used titles available for immediate despatch. We maintain a wide general stock, specialising in local, Scottish, maritime and military. Out of print and new titles are catalogued every day.Scottish Independent Retail Awards Regional Finalist: 2011 and 2015. Winner 2016

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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...
Cocked: Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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....
New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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...