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GHOSTS and WITCHES
by J Wentworth Day
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Naas, Kildare, Ireland
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About This Item
London, United Kingdom: B.T. Batsford Limited,, 1954. Book. Illus. by Michael Ayrton. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, (First Printing). Octavo, pp. 172, original black cloth boards, true first edition, first printing (first impression with 'First Published 1954' to the copyright page. Tight binding, Internally clean, dulling to edges. In original jacket which is not price clipped, some heavy wear to the extremities, chipping to spine and some strengthening to folds and repair to upper spine of jacket..
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- Bookseller
- Kelleher Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015664
- Title
- GHOSTS and WITCHES
- Author
- J Wentworth Day
- Illustrator
- Michael Ayrton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- B.T. Batsford Limited,
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- GHOSTS and WITCHES, FIRST EDITION, GHOSTS and WITCHES
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Naas, Kildare
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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...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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