Badminton
by Sir George Thomas, Bart
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1937. First Edition . Cloth Bound Boards. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. c.1937. First Edition. Size octavo, 52 pages plus 3 pages of related trade advertisements and 7 pages of publisher's adverts at the rear. Yellow cloth with black titles to the front cover and spine, with the dust jacket. Book condition very good, corners and edges rubbed, small mark to upper edge of front cover, contents very clean. Dust jacket condition good, corners and folds rubbed with a small tear to upper front edge and small piece missing from base of spine head of spine and corners chipped, spotted, spine sunned, not price clipped. Illustrated with photographic plates.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lazarus Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014589
- Title
- Badminton
- Author
- Sir George Thomas, Bart
- Format/Binding
- Cloth Bound Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Seeley, Service & Co. Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- SPORTS PASTIMES RACKET
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Lazarus Books Limited
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About the Seller
Lazarus Books Limited
Biblio member since 2007
Blackpool, Lancashire
About Lazarus Books Limited
We are a small family business located in Blackpool, England. We stock a varied range of Antiquarian and Collectable Books; Antiquarian Holy Bibles, Fine Bindings, Literature, Poetry, Military, Travel, First Editions, Illustrated, Childrens', Signed Books and more.
Glossary
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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....
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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