The Water Gipsies
by A.P. Herbert
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1930. Very Good/Very Good. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1930. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial Art Deco dust jacket; vii,[1],392,8pp. General shelf wear and some shallow chipping to jacket extremities, most notably at spine crown, jacket spine toned and lettering faded, spine cocked, light dust-soil, corners bumped, else a Very Good, still quite attractive and bright copy.
The prolific British author's romance novel of young Jane Bell and her lower class family, who reside on a canal boat in West London.
The prolific British author's romance novel of young Jane Bell and her lower class family, who reside on a canal boat in West London.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8171
- Title
- The Water Gipsies
- Author
- A.P. Herbert
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Methuen & Co. Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1930
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- 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....
- 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...
- First Edition
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