A Passionate Prodigality: Fragments Of Autobiography
by Guy Chapman
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
MacGibbon & Kee, 1965. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1965. Second Edition. 281 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth with gilt lettering. Minor tanning to otherwise clear pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers, with light thumb marking also present. Pencil inscription to front pastedown. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild scuffing overall. Small stain to rear board. Spine has subtle sunning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. Clipped dust jacket with minor rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Some minor tanning, creasing and scuffing overall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1719229230ABS
- Title
- A Passionate Prodigality: Fragments Of Autobiography
- Author
- Guy Chapman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- MacGibbon & Kee
- Date Published
- 1965
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...