Hardship our Garment (First Novel Library 119)
by WOOD, Leslie
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/Good+
- Seller
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Grange over Sands, Cumbria, United Kingdom
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About This Item
WOOD, Leslie
Hardship our Garment (First Novel Library 119)
Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., London, 1947, 1st Edition, hardback with dust wrapper, GD+/gd+, boards brown/black, 272 pp.
Boards clean and firm, gentle bumps to head and tail of spine, rubs to corners, smattering of faint marks to front and spine strip, no inscription or annotations, sound tight binding, lean to the spine, pages clean, tanned, edges of text block lightly foxed. Moderate shelf wear to wrapper (see scans), chips to head and tail of spine, water stains to back panel, rubs and bumps to edges and corners, now protected by acid-free archive film.
COLLECTABLE FICTION, 1ST EDITION, HARDBACK, LESLIE WOOD, SUSPENSE, MURDER, FALSLEY ACCUSED
46257 COLL FIC/W £21.50
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Details
- Bookseller
- Daisyroots Books Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46257
- Title
- Hardship our Garment (First Novel Library 119)
- Author
- WOOD, Leslie
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1947
- Pages
- 272 pp
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- COLLECTABLE FICTION, 1ST EDITION, HARDBACK, LESLIE WOOD, SUSPENSE, MURDER, FALSLEY ACCUSED
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION first editions;
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About the Seller
Daisyroots Books Ltd
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Grange over Sands, Cumbria
About Daisyroots Books Ltd
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- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Spine Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
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