Tales Of The Fortunate Isles
by Paul Eldridge
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Thomas Yoseloff, 1959. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1959. No Edition Remarks. 413 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over brown cloth with black and white illustrations throughout. Minor tanning to pages with pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and slight dog-eared pages throughout. Light foxing to text block edges and front hinge is cracked with exposed netting. Binding is loose. Boards have visible rubbing and moderate bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and visible rubbing to spine. Clipped jacket with visible edge wear and rubbing. There is visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends and heavier sunning to spine. Moderate sunning to interior. Visible water stain to spine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1634120781MEP
- Title
- Tales Of The Fortunate Isles
- Author
- Paul Eldridge
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Thomas Yoseloff
- Date Published
- 1959
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...