The Great Captain - Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba
by Mary Purcell
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Acceptable
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Alvin Redman, 1963. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1963. No edition remarks. 246 pages. Orange pictorial dust jacket over black cloth. Black and white illustrative plates within. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Endpapers have strips of mild tanning caused by jacket. Pencil price to front endpaper. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Gilt is bright. The clipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Front flap fold is heavily torn. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Slight loss to jacket edges and corners.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1702635646CRA
- Title
- The Great Captain - Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba
- Author
- Mary Purcell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Alvin Redman
- Date Published
- 1963
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...