Seven Assignments
by Dudley Clarke
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Jonathan Cape, 1948. Hardcover. Good. 1948. Second impression. 262 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Maps across endpapers. Introduction by the Earl Wavell. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Text block edges notably foxed with slight water marks. A few small liquid droplet marks to pastedowns. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine which has some small black spots also. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. A few liquid droplet marks.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1712041737ABS
- Title
- Seven Assignments
- Author
- Dudley Clarke
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Date Published
- 1948
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...