Independent Witness First edition.
by Cecil, Henry
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
-
Eynsham, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Michael Joseph, 1963. First edition. Hardback. Good/Good. Michael Joseph, London, 1963. First edition. Book condition: good. Light shelf wear. Spotting & dust soiling to text block edges. Previous owner's name and date to ffep. Light tanning and spotting to end papers. Sporadic light spotting elsewhere. Jacket condition: good. Uncipped. Some edge wear with slight chipping to head & tail of spine and to corners. Spine a little discoloured. Some slight soiling here and there. Suspense and humour from the pen of Henry Cecil.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ariadne Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1304095
- Title
- Independent Witness First edition.
- Author
- Cecil, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- Modern fiction,Henry Cecil
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction;
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About the Seller
Ariadne Books
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Eynsham, Oxfordshire
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Glossary
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
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