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The Wheel Wright's Shop
by Sturt, George
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Loveland, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
London , UK: Cambridge University Press, 1934. Fair condition Hardcover Octavo with no dust jacket, 1934, second (April) printing of 1923 1st edition. Book has aged and has shelfwear along spine gutter wherein the cloth at the top 2 inches has separated and frayed a bit on either side of the spine, otherwise not too much wear. Sunning to spine plate, and all exterior cloth has yellowed somewhat, very light soiling exists. Boards are slightly bowed vertically, but binding is decent overall. A small ink name appears at the top of the front free end paper. Pages inside are tanning. Overall Fair condition.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Squirrel Away Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013468
- Title
- The Wheel Wright's Shop
- Author
- Sturt, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- London , UK
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- Scarce Fiction Classic Collectible
- Size
- 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall
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About the Seller
Squirrel Away Books
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Loveland, Colorado
About Squirrel Away Books
At Squirrel Away Books we are committed to quality and service excellence! This includes storing and shipping our books ourselves, and they never go through anyone else's warehouse, except the shipping people. From us to you, via USPS.We are a small, honest Colorado bookstore who has been in business since 1999. We ship quickly and pride ourselves on our accuracy. We have an inventory that includes many rare books and curiosities.We love being a part of the international book trade, supplying books to those who might otherwise not be able to find such rare items. Thank you for your interest in our books!
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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