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Walk Soft in the Fold
by Nixon, David B
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, UK: Chatto and Windus, 1977. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition. 240pp. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Spine ends lightly rubbed and rounded. Text block edges lightly foxed. Lender's stamp on front prelims; evidence of label on front free endpaper; rear pastedown has some glue remnants. Internally, some very occasional spotting otherwise neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket protected by Brodart style sleeve, shelf number on spine, stain to spine head and adjacent covers. The warm and loving memoirs when the author, as a young lad, went to work on a farm. "Stop darting about like one o' they blue-arsed flize and larn ter walk soft in the fold!" said the old shepherd. By listening, watching and working in patience and gentleness, he came to master the old man's skill and cunning.
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- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014860
- Title
- Walk Soft in the Fold
- Author
- Nixon, David B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Chatto and Windus
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1977
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- First Edition
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- 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...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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