Heroes of the Desert; Thrilling Stories and Strange Adventures
by Bevan Tom, et al
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
The Sunshine Press, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. Unpaginated. Pictorial dust jacket over pictorial paper covered boards. Contains black and white in-text illustrations, with colour illustrated plates. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Water staining to top edges of pages and plates. Cracking to hinges with exposed binding. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Heavy splits to joints with bottom part of spine strip loose. Dark rubbing to board edges. Loss to top edge of spine strip, and scuffed splits to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with some areas of loss. Some heavy tears, chips and creasing overall. Notable rubbed marking and foxing to surfaces. Moderate water staining visible to insides. Mild tanning to spine and edges.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1656590034ADA
- Title
- Heroes of the Desert; Thrilling Stories and Strange Adventures
- Author
- Bevan Tom, et al
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Sunshine Press
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
World of Rare Books
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Spine Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...