STARBRACE
by Sheila Kaye-Smith:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
theberton suffolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Cassell and Company London 1923 Vg (no dj, clean undamaged green cloth with gilt titles on spine, a little very faint foxing endpapers and a little light speckling outside page edges, faint trace of erased signature front free endpaper, contents clean and bright throughout and binding firm) 12mo 298pp. Uniform edition reprint. Novel.
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Details
- Bookseller
- lobstabooks
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41920
- Title
- STARBRACE
- Author
- Sheila Kaye-Smith:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassell and Company London 1923
Terms of Sale
lobstabooks
all books can be returned to the seller if they are not as described, or otherwise not acceptable. this is subject to the buyer keeping them in the same saleable condition as originally sold
About the Seller
lobstabooks
Biblio member since 2006
theberton suffolk
About lobstabooks
we are a family company with emphasis on good personal service and helpful advice. our stock is general, but with a modest weighting towards antiquarian and non-fiction, but we also have a reasonable range of modern first editions.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Uniform Edition
- A collection or series of individual volumes of an author's work bound to match with a uniform size and style. Especially common...
- 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....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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