Hannah Massey
by Cookson, Catherine
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: MacDonald. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Some spotting to page edges. Rubbing and wear to dust wrapper. 1/2" tear at head of dust wrapper spine. 1/8" x 1/8" chip at head of dust wrapper spine. 1 1/2" tear at tail of dust wrapper spine. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 223 pages. Green papered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 196mm x 128mm. "Proud and canny, ignorant and intensely ambitious, Hannah Massey is a born ruler. Her kingdom may only be a working class household in County Durham, but within its walls her iron will governs a predominantly male family and her word is unchallengeable law." - from the dust wrapper blurb. ; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8306
- Title
- Hannah Massey
- Author
- Cookson, Catherine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- MacDonald
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1964
Terms of Sale
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Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Blurb
- The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....