The Witch of the Low Tide: An Edwardian Melodrama
by John Dickson Carr
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hamish Hamilton, 1961. Hardcover. Good. 1961. First Edition. 247 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Blue cloth. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Visible foxing and dog-eared pages throughout and visible tanning to text block edges and cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Boards have mild rubbing and light bumping to corners. Soft crushing to spine ends and book is forward leaning.
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Details
- Seller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1651842134BAB
- Title
- The Witch of the Low Tide: An Edwardian Melodrama
- Author
- John Dickson Carr
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Date Published
- 1961
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Glossary
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition 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....
- 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....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...