The Cheerful Day
by Fairbrother, Nan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good ++/Fair
- Seller
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Lewisporte, Newfoundland, Canada
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About This Item
London: Hogarth Press, 1960. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket, 250 pages; elegant book in red cloth covers with bright and clear gilt lettering to spine, very gently used, tight in binding, hardly a trace of shelf wear other than gentle bumps to spine ends, "D. V. 6-2-61" in ink on free front endpaper, pages age toned as usual, pale faded old staining in margins of two facing pages, otherwise very clean and unmarked; DJ in yellow and white with black lettering, spine age darkened to brown, waterstain visible outside and inside, chipped at spine and hinge ends, two long tears to front hinges, but intact and about 98% complete.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++/Fair.
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- Bookseller
- Eric James
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 044614
- Title
- The Cheerful Day
- Author
- Fairbrother, Nan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good ++
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hogarth Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- ENGLISH BRITISH LITERATURE FICTION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Historical Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Eric James
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Price Clipped
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
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- Shelf Wear
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- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Bumps
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