The Man Who Was Nobody
by Wallace, Edgar
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited [no date]. (hardcover) 256pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Undated (1929). 12mo. Red smooth-cloth boards, lettering in black to spine and top board, top board with simple single-rule border in black with the publisher's device in black to bottom corner. Boards with light rubbing, shelfwear. Spine ever-so slightly cocked. Lacking dust jacket. Starting at p96 / 97, all leaves remain entirely secure. Previous owner's gift inscription at the head of the ffep. Else internally clean..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Spafford Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 121223
- Title
- The Man Who Was Nobody
- Author
- Wallace, Edgar
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Ward, Lock & Co., Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- Literature, English Literature, Literature - English
Terms of Sale
Spafford Books
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About the Seller
Spafford Books
Biblio member since 2009
Regina, Saskatchewan
About Spafford Books
50 + years buying and selling. Large stock dealing with western Canada, fur trade, Indigenous Peoples, general antiquarian. Open by appointment or chance! Call 1-306-525-4910.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...