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The Spirit of the Hills
by Smythe, Frank S
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1935. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo, xiv + pp308 complete with 36 b/w plates including frontis. Hardcover with dust jacket. DJ in protective sleeve in good if mucky/discoloured condition with some rubbing and chipping to edges and tips. Light blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine with a little shelf wear to head and tail of spine and old water mark to back board. Inside in very good clean condition, binding still tight. A good copy in a scarce dust jacket
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nikki Green Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000381
- Title
- The Spirit of the Hills
- Author
- Smythe, Frank S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1935
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- topography
Terms of Sale
Nikki Green Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Nikki Green Books
Biblio member since 2021
Glasgow, Glasgow
About Nikki Green Books
Nikki Green Books is based in Glasgow. We are third generation bookdealers, beginning with Eve Lowell who started The Dartmoor Bookshop in Ashburton and Sue Lowell Natural History Books, our parent company, based in London. We specialise in natural history along with a wide range of subjects
Glossary
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- 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...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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