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The Ordeal of Major Grigsby
by John Sherlock
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
-
Ryde, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London, UK: Hutchinson and Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 1964. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Second printing of the first edition. Firmly bound brown boards with gilt titles. Some handling wear and marks with browning bands and tanning to end papers. Dusting present on top closed page edges. Jacket not price clipped with foxing to internal fly leaves and rubbing to spine edges.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ryde Bookshop Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 040471
- Title
- The Ordeal of Major Grigsby
- Author
- John Sherlock
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Hutchinson and Co. (Publishers) Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- FICTION, NOVEL
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Ryde Bookshop Limited
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
Ryde Bookshop Limited
Biblio member since 2021
Ryde, Isle of Wight
About Ryde Bookshop Limited
Traditional bookshop, established since 1988, open from 9 am to 5 pm, seven days a week including bank holidays, over 100,000 books in ten rooms.
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- Price Clipped
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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....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay 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...
- First Edition
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- 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.
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...