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A Legal Fiction
by Ferrars, Elizabeth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: The Crime Club / Collins. Fair in Fair dust jacket. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. First UK edition. 191 pages. Red cloth covers with black lettering on spine. Ex-library. Library stamps and markings. Surface damage to endpapers. Front hinge cracked. Page edges browned and spotted. 3/4" chips at front flap fold of dustwrapper. Tape adhering to edges of flaps of dustwrapper. 1.5" tear in front flap of dustwrapper. ; Ex-Library; 12mo .
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Details
- Seller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 002425
- Title
- A Legal Fiction
- Author
- Ferrars, Elizabeth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Crime Club / Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- Crime Detective Fiction
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
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