Standard Edition of the Works of Bernard Shaw - Buoyant Billions, Farfetched Fables and Shaw vs Shav
by Shaw, George Bernard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Constable & Co. Ltd.. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1950. First thus. Hardcover. DJ and boards show some shelf wear, short edge tears and significant chipping, pieces missing from DJ top and bottom of spine, previous owner's name on FFEP. Former dealer's sticker base of front pastedown with sticker shadow on FFEP, some yellowing of pages ; A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 143 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21609
- Title
- Standard Edition of the Works of Bernard Shaw - Buoyant Billions, Farfetched Fables and Shaw vs Shav
- Author
- Shaw, George Bernard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First thus
- Publisher
- Constable & Co. Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- George Bernard Shaw
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
Terms of Sale
Ainsworth Books
Satisfaction guaranteed - if I have made an error in the description, I will refund book and shipping both ways. If the customer just changes his/her mind I will only refund one shipping charge. Please contact me before sending a book back. Any dust jackets on books will have a Mylar protector. Books shipped from US or Canada.
About the Seller
Ainsworth Books
Biblio member since 2003
Chilliwack, British Columbia
About Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....