Man Overboard
by Dickens, Monica
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG+/GD
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1958* Publisher: Michael Joseph.* Binding and cover condition: Navy blue cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, head of spine sunned. VG+* Jacket condition: Text illustrated dust wrapper with b/w photo to rear. Slightly aged and faded. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of 15/- net. considerable shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine with minor losses. GD* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no marks to text, slight marks to fore and top edge, offsetting to end papers but otherwise not tanned. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 270 pp. text. iii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: "The hero of Monica Dicken's novel is a Lieutenant-Commander axed from the Navy at the age of thirty-six. A widower with a small daughter, his whole life had been that of a sailor. Man Overboard is not only the story of his struggles when he tries to find some way to earn his living: it is the story of his difficulty in adjusting himself to an unfamiliar civilian world. It is a sympathetic look at the very human side of one of those mass adjustments forced on society by the changing nature of the world and its affairs."* A NEAR VG copy of the 1st./1st. with wear and ageing to dust jacket reducing it to GD*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4045
- Title
- Man Overboard
- Author
- Dickens, Monica
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG+/GD
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 1st. Imp.
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Place of Publication
- Lomdon UK 256
- Date Published
- 1958-01-01
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- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
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