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Tambourine, Trumpet and Drum
by Kaye-Smith, Sheila
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London, UK: Cassell and Company, 1945. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Second edition, produced to War Economy Standards. 388pp. In black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 12mo. Boards rubbed at edges, a little rounded on corners and spine ends; cloth a little dull. Previous owner's name inked on front free endpapers; endpapers tanning, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In a worn and torn dust jacket, with some loss along lower edge, sunned over spine, visible shelf wear on verso. Novel set in rural Kent during World War II. Sheila Kaye-Smith was a popular English novelist, known for her many novels set in borderland country between Sussex and Kent. We have many Sheila Kaye-Smith titles in stock. Please inquire for discounts if considering ordering more than one item.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017028
- Title
- Tambourine, Trumpet and Drum
- Author
- Kaye-Smith, Sheila
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Publisher
- Cassell and Company
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1945
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fiction, novels, Forgotten Authors
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About the Seller
BookAddiction
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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.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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