The Spotted Sphinx
by Joy Adamson
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Collins & Harvill Press, 1969. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1969. No Edition Remarks. 217 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over Beige pictorial cloth. Contains photographic plates. Split across spine end with exposed binding. Pages are bright and clear, with light tanning to text block edges. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper, with a few small nicks along text block edge. Occasional thumb-marking present throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with minor corner bumping and mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean and bow. Moderately tanned overall. Split across spine end with exposed binding. Unclipped jacket has light surface wear, with tears and creasing to spine ends, edges and corners. Lightly tanned overall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1693299604ALK
- Title
- The Spotted Sphinx
- Author
- Joy Adamson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Collins & Harvill Press
- Date Published
- 1969
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...