The Vain Ambitions
by Robert Gaines
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Heinemann, 1953. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1953. No Edition Remarks. 294 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over black cloth. Contains a laminate cover over the dust jacket that is stuck down to the boards. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Tape residue to endpapers and pastedowns with visible foxing and tanning to text block edges. Pen inscriptions to rear pastedown and endpaper and cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Binding is loose. Boards have visible edge wear and rubbing with moderate bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket with visible edge wear and creasing with moderate sunning to spine as well.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1633944235ADA
- Title
- The Vain Ambitions
- Author
- Robert Gaines
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Date Published
- 1953
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- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....