The Book of the Countryside
by F. Martin Duncan and Lucy T. Duncan
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Acceptable
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Collins, 1961. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1961. This Impression. 319 pages. Illustrative jacket over green cloth. Contains black and white and colour illustrations throughout. Prize plate stuck to front free endpaper. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Thumb-marking present. Some creasing to gutter. Pencil marks to frontispiece. Visible creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Clipped jacket has heavy edgewear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and, creasing. Some rubbing to surfaces. Scuffing to edges.
Reviews
On Mar 17 2015, a reader said:
THIS WAS A GOOD STORY AND IT FLOWED WITHOUT TOO MUCH UNINTERESTING FILLER. IT WAS A CLEAN WRITTEN AND STILLVERY GOOD. I ENJOY BOOKS THAT HAVE A STORY TO THEM AND ARE NOT ALL ABOUT SEX, MURDER AND CURSE WORDS AND WORSE.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1681319933LEE
- Title
- The Book of the Countryside
- Author
- F. Martin Duncan and Lucy T. Duncan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Collins
- Date Published
- 1961
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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....
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...