Count Basie and His Orchestra: Its Music and its Musicians
by Raymond Horricks
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1957. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1957. No Edition Remarks. 320 pages. Black and white photographic dust jacket over orange cloth with a photographic black and white frontis and plates throughout. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen inscriptions to front endpaper and visible tanning to text block edges. Pencil marginalia throughout. Boards have minor rubbing and heavier bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket with major edge wear and visible rubbing. Splitting to joints and visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends with ink stamp to front.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1636461075BDO
- Title
- Count Basie and His Orchestra: Its Music and its Musicians
- Author
- Raymond Horricks
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz Ltd
- Date Published
- 1957
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...