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Is Sex Necessary? or Why You Feel the Way You Do
by James Thurber and E B White
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Petworth, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 8th printing of the New Edition. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket is not price clipped. Dust jacket is scuffed top and bottom. Pages are clean and binding is tight. 1958
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- Bookseller
- Reader’s Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3663
- Title
- Is Sex Necessary? or Why You Feel the Way You Do
- Author
- James Thurber and E B White
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1958
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Reader’s Books
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
Reader’s Books
Biblio member since 2019
Petworth, West Sussex
About Reader’s Books
Market town general antiquarian book shop specialising in literature, travel and history.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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...
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