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Jumbo Spencer
by Cresswell, Helen
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
-
nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Leicester, UK: Brockhampton Press, 1963. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Watson, Clixby. First edition. 120pp. Yellow cloth-covered boards, dark green titles on spine, many black and white illustrations (including frontispiece). 12mo. Boards very lightly soiled. Spine ends and corners lightly rubbed and rounded. Text block edges lightly foxed. Slightly cocked. Ex-seller's sticker on front pastedown, poorly removed presentation plate on front free endpaper. Rear hinge stretched. A few pencil notes and annotations through the volume. Internally neat, clean and tight. Dust jacket spine lightly soiled, heavy wear around edges, heavy chipping at ends; covers moderately soiled, two pieces of sticker residue on rear cover, wear around edges and folds, heavy chipping at corners, front flap price-clipped; interior moderately soiled and stained
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Details
- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018959
- Title
- Jumbo Spencer
- Author
- Cresswell, Helen
- Illustrator
- Watson, Clixby
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Brockhampton Press
- Place of Publication
- Leicester, UK
- Date Published
- 1963
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- 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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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