John Betjeman's Collected Poems
by John Betjeman
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
John Murray, 1958. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1958. No Edition Remarks. 279 pages. Brown dust jacket over beige cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Occasional thumb-marking present. Some light creasing to a few pages throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Book is notably forward leaning. Light creasing to front board. Clipped jacket has heavy edge wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Mild rubbing and marking to surfaces, with scuffing to edges and small splits to joints. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Loss to bottom edge of spine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1628573688LSA
- Title
- John Betjeman's Collected Poems
- Author
- John Betjeman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Date Published
- 1958
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.