Akenfield Portrait of an English Village
by Ronald Blythe
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Petworth, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: The Literary Guild , 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo.. A first edition of the Literary Guild edition, published the same year. Dust jacket is scuffed particularly to top edge which has small tears and small loss to back cover. Otherwise good and not price clipped. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Pages are clean and binding is tight. 8vo. 1969
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- Bookseller
- Reader’s Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4928
- Title
- Akenfield Portrait of an English Village
- Author
- Ronald Blythe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Literary Guild
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1969
- Size
- 8vo.
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About the Seller
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Petworth, West Sussex
About Reader’s Books
Market town general antiquarian book shop specialising in literature, travel and history.
Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...