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Absolute Honour
by C. C. Humphreys
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Orion, 2006. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 2006. First Published in Great Britain. 312 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth with gilt lettering. Flatsigned by author to title page. Light tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing to edges. Some minor scuffing overall.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1683876626TMB
- Title
- Absolute Honour
- Author
- C. C. Humphreys
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Orion
- Date Published
- 2006
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Flatsigned
- A flatsigned book is signed, and not inscribed, directly on a page of the book, rather than on a bookplate or with an...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
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