You Never Can Tell: A Comedy In Four Acts
by Bernard Shaw
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Constable and Company, 1915. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1915. No Edition Remarks. Unpaginated. Grey dust jacket over green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Continued pagination from page 207-320. Binding remains firm. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Stamp mark to front endpaper. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning. Occasional foxing. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. There is bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Tanning to spine and edges. Gilt lettering is darkened slightly. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking. Tanning to spine and edges.
Synopsis
From the book:English readers to this German edition as the most complete in existence.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1647262823MHP
- Title
- You Never Can Tell: A Comedy In Four Acts
- Author
- Bernard Shaw
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Constable and Company
- Date Published
- 1915
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
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- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...