The Musson Book Company LTD., 1940. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1940. Fourth Printing. 327 pages. Photographic dust jacket over green cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white photographic frontispiece. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages; more prominent to text block edges. Gutters are occasionally cracked with the netting exposed but pages remain attached. Binding remains firm. Spine has moderate fraying and crushing to ends. Boards have moderate corner bumping and edge-wear with visible fraying and scuffing overall. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a prominent backwards lean. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge-wear with severe tears and chipping. Moderate tanning and heavy loss overall. Panels remain loosely attached together.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1663659147BAB
Title: Memory Hold the Door
Author: John Buchan
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: The Musson Book Company LTD.
Date Published: 1940

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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...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay 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....
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,...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...