Deft fingers
by Garside, Jean
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair in Poor dust jacket
- Seller
-
Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
United Kingdom: Pilot Press. Fair in Poor dust jacket. 1949. Hardcover. READING COPY - A Fair hardcover in a frail damaged dustjacket. The book is in faded blue cloth-covered boards, sunned to the edges, bumped and rubbed to spine ends and corners. Internally, previous owner's name inked to the front endpaper, pages toned and a little foxed to the text-block edges. The dustjacket is aged, with losses to the edges, corners and spine strip. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our bookshop in Scotland. ; 8.50 X 5.40 X 0.70 inches; 146 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Bookshelf
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56909
- Title
- Deft fingers
- Author
- Garside, Jean
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair in Poor dust jacket
- Publisher
- Pilot Press
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- Household handicrafts
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crafts: Various;
Terms of Sale
The Old Bookshelf
We work hard to make sure that every book is carefully examined and the condition is individually and accurately described. Each of our books is very carefully packaged to ensure that it arrives at its new home in the condition that it left the shop. In the event of a problem please contact us within 14 days of receipt to discuss how we can best rectify the situation.
About the Seller
The Old Bookshelf
Biblio member since 2005
Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute
About The Old Bookshelf
Welcome to the home of The Old Bookshelf, situated in Campbeltown on the West Coast of Scotland. Our wee bookshop holds over 15,000 New, Antiquarian, Out of Print and Used titles available for immediate despatch. We maintain a wide general stock, specialising in local, Scottish, maritime and military. Out of print and new titles are catalogued every day.Scottish Independent Retail Awards Regional Finalist: 2011 and 2015. Winner 2016
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Spine Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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