Pomfret Towers
by Angela Thirkell
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Bluffton, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Reprint ed. of 1949, c1938. 12mo, tan cloth, blue titles, map of Barsetshire endpapers, 192 pages. VERY GOOD book / FAIR jacket: book has minor wear to extremities, gentle bumping to corners, faint spine crease; jacket is edgeworn separated at front, spine sunned, price-clipped, now all quite lovely in protective mylar. "When Alice Barton, who had never been to a gathering of quite this kind before, was invited by the terrifying Lord Pomfret to Pomfret Towers, she wished she were dead." and it goes uphill from there!
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bygone Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17914
- Title
- Pomfret Towers
- Author
- Angela Thirkell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1949
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- COMEDY OF MANNERS, WOMEN WRITERS, 20TH-CENTURY LITERATURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Women Writers;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Bygone Books
Biblio member since 2004
Bluffton, South Carolina
About Bygone Books
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Glossary
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...