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Polly Oliver: Tales
by A. E. Coppard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good-/No jacket
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Polly Oliver: Tales by A. E. Coppard
Hardback, 1935, first edition, published by Jonathan Cape, London, 320 pages + 8-page publisher catalogue at rear.
Octavo/8vo, measures around 7 3/4" by 5 5/8" by 1 1/8". No dust jacket. Quarter black and yellow cloth binding, title label to spine. Foxing to boards. Some foxing, marking and rubbing. Signs of shelf-wear, slightly bumped corners. Book has slight forward tilt. Some slackness to binding but contents reasonably firm. Lower and fore-edges of pages deckled. Edges, fore-edges foxed and upper edges a little marked. A little foxing to endpapers and the odd mark to page surfaces here and there, some pencil writing to front pastedown and front free endpaper, but otherwise page surfaces clean, no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.
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- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-442
- Title
- Polly Oliver: Tales
- Author
- A. E. Coppard
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1935
- Pages
- 320+
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
GN Books and Prints
Biblio member since 2022
Inverness, Highland
About GN Books and Prints
Seller based in the Scottish Highlands, dealing in a variety of books, including antiquarian, vintage and modern.
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- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Cloth
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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