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The Fabulous Originals - Lives of Extraordinary People Who Inspired Memorable Characters in Fiction
by Wallace Irving
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: London: Longmans Green, 1956, 1956. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. green cloth a little rubbed and sunned, spine lettering faded, edges a bit foxed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenbower Books
(IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14845
- Title
- The Fabulous Originals - Lives of Extraordinary People Who Inspired Memorable Characters in Fiction
- Author
- Wallace Irving
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- London: Longmans Green, 1956
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- TRUE LIVES, BIOGRAPHY, LITERATURE, ARTS ETC
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature, Arts etc;
Terms of Sale
Glenbower Books
Full refund will be given if customer is not satisfied. Payment accepted in Euro, Sterling and US dollars (cheque or money order or bank-to-bank transfer) or by Paypal. Orders in the €100 area and above will be sent by registered post (i.e. with tracking). Tracking on cheaper items, if desired, will cost an extra €8.00 - this is the postal service charge. Please let me know when ordering. As I am mailing from Ireland, international orders may take from five to more than 30 working days to arrive due to the current pandemic conditions. I do not control the international postal service and cannot guarantee delivery times.
About the Seller
Glenbower Books
Biblio member since 2006
Dublin, Dublin
About Glenbower Books
online or telephone inquiries only - no shop premises.
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- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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