Tattered Battalion
by Laurie Andrews
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Cassell & Company Ltd, 1957. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1957. First Edition. 223 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth covered boards with gilt. Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Browned tape marks to end papers and paste downs. Pen scribbles and wear to final blank pages. Binding remains firm. Cracking to hinges, no damage to end papers. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is darkened. Clipped jacket has moderate edge-wear with chips, tears and creasing.
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Details
- Seller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1709015945ALK
- Title
- Tattered Battalion
- Author
- Laurie Andrews
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Cassell & Company Ltd
- Date Published
- 1957
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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.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...