Tide's ending, BB
by BB ending
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Very Good. London: Hollis & Carter. Hardcover First edition, first printing 1950. Original beige cloth with gilt decorations and titles to front panel and spine in no dustwrapper. Very good decor. cloth, bright gilt lettering and wave design front cover, some fading to spine. 16 of BBs (Denys Watkins-Pitchford's) color plates and numerous black and white illustrations throughout, Tight, unmarked, except foxing at endpapers and brief spotting (ext.) and corner bumps. No reader's marks.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Station North Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0527F875545
- Title
- Tide's ending, BB
- Author
- BB ending
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
Terms of Sale
Station North Books
20 days no-questions-asked returns. I'll pay postage if the book is not as described.
About the Seller
Station North Books
Biblio member since 2006
Baltimore, Maryland
About Station North Books
I grade conservatively, personally inspecting all the books and trying to describe their condition so you have no surprises. I aim to underpromise and overdeliver. My best feedback is the (more than) one that says, "Better than described!" I have been collecting books for years and sharing story and ideas as an English teacher since 1987. Ned at NedSparrow.com
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...