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A Reed Shaken by the Wind
by Gavin Maxwell
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Petworth, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1957. Hardcover. Good. 8vo.. First impression of the first edition. DJ is in poor condition with tears to edges and loss to spine. Dust jacket is price clipped. Blue cloth boards. Binding is tight. Pages are age tanned but clean. Spotting to page edges. Previous owner's signature on fep. 1957
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Details
- Bookseller
- Reader’s Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4245
- Title
- A Reed Shaken by the Wind
- Author
- Gavin Maxwell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1957
- Size
- 8vo.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Reader’s Books
Biblio member since 2019
Petworth, West Sussex
About Reader’s Books
Market town general antiquarian book shop specialising in literature, travel and history.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Age Tanned
- Age tanning, or browning, occurs over time on the pages of books. This process can show up on just the edges of pages, when...
- 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...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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