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The Truth About Bookselling
by Thomas Joy
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good-
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
Item Price
NZ$33.63NZ$25.21
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About This Item
The Truth About Bookselling by Thomas Joy, with a foreword by Sir Stanley Unwin. Hardback, 1964, first edition, published by Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd, London, 206 pages + x. Signed/inscribed on title page: "To George Depotex [?] from his friend Tommy Nov. 10th 1964 Thomas Joy".
Octavo/8vo, measures around 8 3/4" by 5 3/4" by 3/4". Dust jacket shows scuffing and marking, with wear and slight tearing at spine edges. Blue cloth binding, silver lettering and detail to front board, silver lettering to spine. A little wear to edges but clean. Binding reasonably firm. Page edges browned, a bit foxed and scuffed. The odd bit of foxing to page surfaces, more so towards endpapers, but no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.
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- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-374
- Title
- The Truth About Bookselling
- Author
- Thomas Joy
- Format/Binding
- Hardback, cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1964
- Pages
- x + 206
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Bookselling
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About the Seller
GN Books and Prints
Biblio member since 2022
Inverness, Highland
About GN Books and Prints
Seller based in the Scottish Highlands, dealing in a variety of books, including antiquarian, vintage and modern.
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- Edges
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- Foxed
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- First Edition
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