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The Face of a Madonna
by ARMSTRONG, Thomas
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Collins, 1964. Very Good. First edition. 8vo, pp. (384). Orange cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Slight lean to spine, head and tail of spine lightly bruised, bump to bottom edge of lower board. Light spotting to edges, prelims and rear endpapers. Loss (6 x 1.5cm) to fore-edge of ffep. Else, clean and tight. In VG original DJ - soiling, edgewear, a few nicks. Armstrong's fictional foray into medieval Yorkshire and its religious cultures and institutions, including Rievaulx Abbey.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quair Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 816
- Title
- The Face of a Madonna
- Author
- ARMSTRONG, Thomas
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Collins
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- First Edition
Terms of Sale
Quair Books
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About the Seller
Quair Books
Biblio member since 2019
Leeds, West Yorkshire
About Quair Books
Based in West Yorkshire, Quair Books specialises in modern literary and visual cultures, particularly alternative, different and radical authors/ artists, presses and histories. We hold a small general stock, with a focus on unusual, interesting and beautiful books, as well as significant books in the history of ideas. Find us online at: quairbooks.co.uk; email us on: quairbooks@gmail.com and Twitter: @quairbooks.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
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