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Speedy
by Max Brand
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Hodder And Stoughton, 1957. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1957. First Edition. 192 pages. Illustrated jacket over green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Pages are rather marked with pronounced tanning and foxing, plus thumbing. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and pastedown. Extremely intense foxing to front endpaper and text block edges, the latter being dusty too. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Gilt is bright. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with small tears and creasing. Jacket is slightly rubbed and marked overall. Extreme foxing to flaps. Jacket is in a transparent sleeve.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1652381709BWD
- Title
- Speedy
- Author
- Max Brand
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hodder And Stoughton
- Date Published
- 1957
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- 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...
- Jacket
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- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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....
- 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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