Keep Your Pigeons Flying
by Leon F. Whitney
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Faber and Faber Limited, 1969. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1969. Second Edition Reprint. 252 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth with white lettering. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages are bright, with light tanning and foxing to free endpapers and text block edges. Minor dog-eared corners, with a few small nicks, rub marks and water drops along text block edge. Stamp on rear free endpaper. Occasional thumb-marking present throughout. Plates are bright and clear, with slight tanning to edges. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with mild bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Faint tanning to spine and edges, with visible crushing to spine ends. Book has a subtle forward lean and bow. Unclipped jacket has moderate surface wear, with small tears and creasing to spine ends, edges and corners. Lightly tanned, with water staining to upper corner.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1692619921DPB
- Title
- Keep Your Pigeons Flying
- Author
- Leon F. Whitney
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber Limited
- Date Published
- 1969
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....