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End Of An Innings
by Compton, Denis
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG/ND
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. thus* Impression: Reprint.* Date: 1959.* Pub: The Sportsman's Book Club.* Binding and cover condition: Maroon cloth covered boards with faded gilt title to spine strip and none to face. Bumps but no rubs, no other visible faults. VG* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, slight marks to text. Some age & toning to top & fore-edge. VG* Illustrations: One block of 15pp. b/w photos at centre.* Pages: 207 pp. text. iii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: One in a series of cricketing books in the Sporting Library series. Denis Charles Scott Compton CBE was an English cricketer who played in 78 Test matches and spent his whole cricket career with Middlesex. He was also an accomplished footballer, who played most of his football career at Arsenal.* A NEAR VG+ copy with minor faults reducing it to VG. No dust jacket.*
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Details
- Seller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 9223
- Title
- End Of An Innings
- Author
- Compton, Denis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edn Thus, 1st. Imp.
- Publisher
- THE SPORTSMANS BOOK CLUB
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 210
- Date Published
- 1959-01-01
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Cocksparrow Books
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About the Seller
Cocksparrow Books
Biblio member since 2019
Salisbury, Wiltshire
About Cocksparrow Books
Cocksparrow Books have been selling high quality books for over thirty years, now solely on-line. We concentrate on non-fiction items and early edition fiction (including some soft-backs). Our book condition descriptions are fully detailed to give our customers the best information possible and we are always pleased to provide further information upon request.
Glossary
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Spine Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- ND
- no publisher's date given
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