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In Sara's Tents
by Starkie, Walter
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London: John Murray, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Stated first edition, 1953, hardcover with red cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 339pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG+ with mild general wear to boards and spine, binding tight, endpapers gently off-set and foxed, text clean and unmarked but toned throughout, with faint foxing to edges of text block. DJ VG with edgewear, rubbing to joints, now in archival mylar wrap.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Common Crow Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B42066
- Title
- In Sara's Tents
- Author
- Starkie, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- Anthropology
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About the Seller
Common Crow Books
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
About Common Crow Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
- 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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