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THE SACRED JEWEL
by NANCY FAULKNER
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: CONSTABLE & CO, 1961 Burgundy Boards with gilt blocked titles to spine and front, 215 x 145 mm approx. Double page sketch map. First Edition 1961. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG/VG (Book- no notable shelf wear or soiling, dust spotting to top edge of book block and two foxing spots to fore edge, no previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket - mild shelf rubbing to corner tips, a little tanned with a few light foxing spots showing through, exposed edges of flap folds tanned, non price clipped cover 13s6d. Now in a removable proprietary protective sleeve).
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 128919
- Title
- THE SACRED JEWEL
- Author
- NANCY FAULKNER
- Illustrator
- WILLIAM STOBS (DUST JACKET)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- CONSTABLE & CO
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- The Sacred Jewel, Nancy Faulkner, Fiction, The Druids, First Century Britain, Historical Fiction, Stonehenge,
Terms of Sale
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30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- VG/VG
- Very Good Condition book with a Very Good Condition dust jacket. Very Good Condition indicates a used book that does show some...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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