Five Women
by PARKER, TONY
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Poor
- Seller
-
London, London, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hutchinsn and Company, 1965. First Edition. . Hardback. Good/Poor. Anthony Colbert. Green cloth spine with gilt lettering to spine, unclipped dust jacket. Dust jacket tanned and scuffed at edges and spine, 4 small holes to spine and rear, small patch to middle of spine where laminate has rubbed away. Chips and small closed tears and four pieces missing from corners. Boards slightly bumped and faded at edges. Contents very good, clean and tight. No inscriptions.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Ripping Yarns
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60217
- Title
- Five Women
- Author
- PARKER, TONY
- Illustrator
- Anthony Colbert
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hutchinsn and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1965
Terms of Sale
Ripping Yarns
P&p extra, by first class post or airmail unless otherwise requested. Returns accepted only if incorrectly described.
About the Seller
Ripping Yarns
Biblio member since 2006
London, London
About Ripping Yarns
Ripping Yarns no longer has shop premises but we are continuing to operate from the owner's house in North London. We specialise in children's and illustrated books but also have a large and wide-ranging general stock. Please contact us if you don't see what you're looking for as much of our stock is not listed online.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
Frequently asked questions
Collecting Children’s Literature
Children’s books are among some of the most popular themes to build a book collection on. Learn a bit more in our Brief History of Children’s Literature.
Collecting The Beat Generation
The Beat Generation was born out of WWII, and it still continues to exert considerable influence on today’s literary scene. Biblio sellers have a fantastic collection of Beat Generation books and ephemera for browsing.
