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Southways
by Erskine Caldwell
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Heinemann, 1955. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1955. No Edition Noted. 175 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Brown dust jacket over black cloth. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Moderate tanning to pages with tape residue throughout and front endpaper missing. Heavy tanning to text block edges and cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Front hinge is cracked with exposed netting. Boards have visible rubbing, tape and sticky residue. Notable bumping to corners and fair crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket with visible edge wear and rubbing. Splitting to joints and visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends.
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Details
- Seller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1650891423IEV
- Title
- Southways
- Author
- Erskine Caldwell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Date Published
- 1955
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Biblio member since 2009
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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