The White Cockatoo (1st/1st Penguin Edition)
by M. G. Eberhart
- Used
- poor
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Poor/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chesterfield, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Penguin Books Limited, 1939. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Poor/No Jacket. First printing of the first Penguin edition. Complete but in poor condition, spine worn and rubbed with damage to paper. Spine cocked with forward lean to text block. Half title coming loose, inner edge torn. Internally, the book is in Good to VG condition. PO's name to top of half-title. 277p. + Penguin Catalogue to rear.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Barlow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00805
- Title
- The White Cockatoo (1st/1st Penguin Edition)
- Author
- M. G. Eberhart
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Limited
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- CRIME FICTION
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Barlow Books
Biblio member since 2021
Chesterfield, Derbyshire
About Barlow Books
Online bookseller specialising in academic and antiquarian books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- 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....
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
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