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Too Late the Phalarope
by Paton, Alan
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/good
- Seller
-
Paris, France
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1953. Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo. Hardcover. Very good/good. green cloth, gilt lettering, mylar wrapped dust jacket clipped, 253 pp, laid in are news clippongs about Paton, dj, half title and title page sunned, bookstore label glued to front pastedoan.
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Details
- Bookseller
- San Francisco Book Company
(FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 70372
- Title
- Too Late the Phalarope
- Author
- Paton, Alan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- South Africa
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
San Francisco Book Company
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
San Francisco Book Company
Biblio member since 2008
Paris
About San Francisco Book Company
A general used English language bookstore on the Left Bank in Paris
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- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
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