Maiden Stakes.
by Dornford Yates:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Ward Lock, 1929. First edition (ie first impression), hardback. 12mo (19cm by 13cm), 319pp. Original grey cloth. There is some foxing to the preliminary pages and the edges of the text block; overall, this book is in good to very good condition. The true first edition, dated 1929 on the title page.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cornell Books Limited (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 77524
- Title
- Maiden Stakes.
- Author
- Dornford Yates:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Ward Lock, 1929.
Terms of Sale
Cornell Books Limited
Returns accepted for any reason, provided that you notify us within 7 days of receipt. The customer is responsible for paying return shipping unless the book was not as described.
About the Seller
Cornell Books Limited
Biblio member since 2005
Tewkesbury
About Cornell Books Limited
We are a medium-sized bookshop located in a small country town in the west of England. The shop is open for business from 1030 to 1700 Monday to Saturday. The building is a fifteenth-century former public house. We are still awaiting the day when we find a book older than the shop itself!
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...