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Vail d'Alvery
by PARKINSON-KEYES, Frances
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1947. Hardback. First edition, 1947. Green cloth with silver lettering to spine. Good condition; edgeworn and rubbed, slight bumps to corners and spine, sunned at top of spine, foxing to fore edges and endpapers, pages tanned but clean and tightly bound in Fair unclipped dust jacket; edgeworn with marks, chips and some tears, loss at top of spine, sunned to spine. Published: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1947
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roy Turner Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11752
- Title
- Vail d'Alvery
- Author
- PARKINSON-KEYES, Frances
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Eyre & Spottiswoode
- Date Published
- 1947
Terms of Sale
Roy Turner 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
Roy Turner Books
Biblio member since 2017
Stockport, Cheshire
About Roy Turner Books
With more than thirty years' experience of collecting literary first editions, I specialise in the areas of both contemporary and earlier fiction, poetry, drama and children's books with particular emphases on signed modern firsts, authors' first and early published books, American and Irish literature and literary prize-winning writers.
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...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- 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....
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