The Hills is Lonely
by Lillian Beckwith
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Hutchinson, 1965. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1965. Fourteenth Impression. 207 pages. Illustrative jacket over brown cloth. Ex-libris plate stuck to front free endpaper. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Pencil inscription to front pastedown. Some creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Light bumping to corners. Soft crushing to spine ends. Minor marks to boards. Clipped jacket has heavy edgewear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and, creasing. Some tanning to spine. Visible rubbing to surfaces. Scuffing to edges.
Synopsis
Delightful memoir of a retired schoolteacher who went crofting on a remote Hebridean island and fell in love with the place and its people.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1691740837ALK
- Title
- The Hills is Lonely
- Author
- Lillian Beckwith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Date Published
- 1965
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...