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Tales of Suspense
by Wilkie Collins / Robert Ashley (Ed.) / and Herbert van Thal (Ed.) / Anne Scott (Illust.)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Tarrington, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: The Folio Society, 1954. 1st Edition . Very Good/Good. 6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm). Dust jacket: Wear to ends of spine with old tape repairs to reverse. Tear to head of spine with archival tape repair to reverse. Foxing and light soiling to rear cover. Slight wear to corners. Price clipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Good Plus. Book: Black buckram binding with silver illustration to front board. Foxing to page edges, endpapers and half title page. Occasional patches of foxing to the text. Overall book condition is Very Good. Size: 6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 255
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tarrington Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1226E037
- Title
- Tales of Suspense
- Author
- Wilkie Collins / Robert Ashley (Ed.) / and Herbert van Thal (Ed.) / Anne Scott (Illust.)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Folio Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Size
- 6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)
- Keywords
- , Horror_SciFi
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime, Mystery & Espionage; Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy;
Terms of Sale
Tarrington Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Tarrington Books
Biblio member since 2015
Tarrington, Herefordshire
About Tarrington Books
A family run bookshop located in the heart of rural Herefordshire. Large selection of children's literature, crime fiction, military, history, travel, vintage paperbacks, quality antiquarian volumes & fine bindings. We offer free UK postage on all items and pride ourselves on our safe packaging and rapid dispatch of orders. Browsers welcome by appointment.
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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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....
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
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