The Rage Of The Vulture
by Alan Moorehead
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hamish Hamilton, 1948. Hardcover. Good. 1948. First Edition. 253 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with silver gilt. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Some page corners folded. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1715590532IEV
- Title
- The Rage Of The Vulture
- Author
- Alan Moorehead
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Date Published
- 1948
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...