Dancing On Ice
by Van Der Weyden, Erik
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: C. Arthur Pearson. Good in Fair dust jacket. (1951). First Edition. Hardcover. Owner's signature. Browning to dust wrapper spine. Rubbing to ends of dust wrapper spine. Series of 1/4" tears along tail of dust wrapper spine. 3/4" tear at head of dust wrapper spine. 1 1/4" x 1/2" chip at head of dust wrapper spine. ; 220 pages + frontis + plates + advertisements. Blue cloth boards. Page dimensions: 197mm x 125mm. "It is a book of practical instruction for the enthusiast in search of near-perfection, and it covers the subject in thorough detail. It will be treasured by those who know and love the accurate art of ice-dancing - a book to read and re-read during training and tests." - from the dust wrapper blurb. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9651
- Title
- Dancing On Ice
- Author
- Van Der Weyden, Erik
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- C. Arthur Pearson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1951)
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- 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...
- Cloth
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Blurb
- The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...