The City of Gold
by Brett Young, Francis
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Sidmouth, Devon, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: William Heinemann, 1939 Copy in navy cloth on boards with gilt decoration on cover and gilt title on spine. Spine rubbed at head/foot. Corners lightly bumped. "SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FFE." Spine slightly cocked. Slight tanning and foxing to front and rear end papers. Sporadic light foxing to folio edges. Clean text.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Balfour Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 031809
- Title
- The City of Gold
- Author
- Brett Young, Francis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1939
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- The City of Gold Francis Brett Young Fiction
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Glossary
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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
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