Pains and Penalties
by Laurence Housman
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1937. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1937. First Thus. 126 pages. Brown dust jacket with black lettering over yellow cloth. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's name to front endpaper. Some gutter cracking. Pages are rough cut. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with tanning to spine. Moderate foxing to boards. Book has a backward lean. Dust jacket corners cut but not price clipped. Mild wear and tear to edges and corners. Moderate sunning to spine, with soiling to DJ.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1681204767MEP
- Title
- Pains and Penalties
- Author
- Laurence Housman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Date Published
- 1937
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...