Alone Across The Top of The World
by David Irwin
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Robert Hale and Co, 1936. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1936. 254 pages. Blue pictorial dust jacket over yellow cloth.Book has a slight smoky odour overall. Pages are clean and bright with a firm binding. Endpapers and page edges are lightly tanned and foxed. Corners are dogeared in places. Boards have been moderately rub worn, with noticeable shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a little frayed and spine ends are crushed, with small splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Book has a forward lean. The unclipped dust jacket has heavy edge wear, with tears, chips and areas of loss. Tanning to spine and edges.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1608656511EWY
- Title
- Alone Across The Top of The World
- Author
- David Irwin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Robert Hale and Co
- Date Published
- 1936
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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...