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Summoned by Bells
by Betjeman, John
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, UK: John Murray, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition. 112pp. Green cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine; decorative endpapers. 8vo. Sun-faded spine ends, lightly rubbed. Top text block edge dusty, remaining edges starting to tan and fox. Endpapers starting to fox and tan. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight; barring foxing to prelims. Paper dust jacket spine sun-faded, minor loss at spine ends, numerous small closed tears; foxing, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018496
- Title
- Summoned by Bells
- Author
- Betjeman, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1960
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Poetry, Poet Laureate
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
BookAddiction
Biblio member since 2021
nr Canterbury, Kent
About BookAddiction
Based in the leafy hamlet of Chartham Hatch, just a few miles from the historic Cathedral city of Canterbury, BookAddiction offers beautiful, illustrated and collectible used books and a selection of unique works on paper.BookAddiction was established in 1999 (originally trading as The Virtual Bookshelf). We are members of the book-selling co-operation, Ibooknet, which extends the highest professional and ethical standards, and are in the process of joining the Provincial Booksellers' Fairs Association (PBFA).Follow our blog, on books and book collecting at www.bookaddictionuk.wordpress.uk or visit our website at www.bookaddiction.co.uk.We welcome inquiries about our books and endeavour to respond promptly. Please ask away, Offers always welcome.
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- 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....
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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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