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The Annam Jewel
by Wentworth, Patricia
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Small, Maynard & Company. Fair with no dust jacket. 1925. Hardcover; Early Printing. Gold cloth binding rubbed at extremities & somewhat cocked; spine ends & corners abraded; boards soiled & spotted; 3 parallel score marks to rear board; a few points in textblock loosening; endpapers removed; glue & black paper residue on paste-downs; corners of several leaves bent; leaf edges, outer leaves & some margins foxed & soiled. No dj. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 315 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50554
- Title
- The Annam Jewel
- Author
- Wentworth, Patricia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover; Early Printing
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Small, Maynard & Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1925
- Keywords
- Indian Born English Authors, Classic British Whodunnit Authors, Patricia Wentworth Collectibles
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery;
Terms of Sale
Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
Biblio member since 2019
Fort Wayne, Indiana
About Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
Open shop with over 125,000 volumes. We try to maintain a good selection in all categories and have a fondness for the odd & obscure. Specialties include History, Nature, Literature, Religion, Mystery, SF, Art, Children's, Humor, Indiana
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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