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YOUNG SAMUEL JOHNSON
by JAMES L. CLIFFORD
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 1955 Brown Cloth BOards with gilt blocked titles to spine, 220 x 145 mm approx. Maps to end papers, xvi + 368pp. Frontis + 15 other illustrations as called for. First Edition 1955. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG/Good (Book- No notable shelf wear or soiling, discreet original bookseller label to front paste down - Charles Wilson Liverpool. Mild offset banding to free end papers, a little dust spotting to top edge of book block. Dust Jacket - mild to moderate general shelf rubbing with a few small nicks/ tears - max 1 cm bottom front panel, price clipped and a little tanning to white or rear panel and exposed edges of flap folds. No other notable defects to book or jacket). Please state when placing order if you would wish that a removable proprietary protective sleeve be fitted.
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Details
- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 130582
- Title
- YOUNG SAMUEL JOHNSON
- Author
- JAMES L. CLIFFORD
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- WILLIAM HEINEMANN
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- Samuel Johnson, James L. Clifford, Litchfield, Literary Biographies, Gilbert Walmesley, Molly Aston, Edward Cave, Thomas Birch,
Terms of Sale
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- Rubbing
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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...
- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Price Clipped
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- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Shelf Wear
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
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