The Short Stories of Saki.
by H. H. Munro
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
John Lane The Bodley Head, 1948. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1948. Reprinted. 720 pages. Colour patterned dust jacket over purple boards with gilt lettering to spine. Black and white frontispiece. Introduction by Christopher Morley. Binding remains firm. Front endpaper is torn out. Pages are moderately tanned throughout. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. There is bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Tanning to spine and edges. Gilt lettering is darkened. Clipped jacket has heavy edge wear with some areas of loss to front, heavy chips, tears and creasing. Tanning to spine and edges.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1631006141ADA
- Title
- The Short Stories of Saki.
- Author
- H. H. Munro
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John Lane The Bodley Head
- 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:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...