Child of Destiny: The Life Story of the First Woman Doctor
by Ross, Ishbel
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Victor Gollancz, 1950. Lightly rubbed. Cocked and shaken, front gutter heavily cracked, frontis partially detached. Inscriptions to ffep. However, pp clean and bright.. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookcase (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53515
- Title
- Child of Destiny: The Life Story of the First Woman Doctor
- Author
- Ross, Ishbel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1950
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
Bookcase
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
Bookcase
Biblio member since 2009
Carlisle, Cumbria
About Bookcase
A Georgian four-floor antiquarian bookshop in Carlisle's historic quarter specialising in Cumbria, Scotland, Mountaineering and rare finds. We are a friendly business, which was started by a local family and is run by friendly and experienced team members.
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...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...