Kumari: A Love Story
by William Buchan
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd, 1955. Hardcover. Good. 1955. First Edition. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Flatsigned by the author to title page. Signed with dedication to front endpaper. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1706086678ADA
- Title
- Kumari: A Love Story
- Author
- William Buchan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd
- Date Published
- 1955
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
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- Flatsigned
- A flatsigned book is signed, and not inscribed, directly on a page of the book, rather than on a bookplate or with an...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...