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Beau Ideal
by Wren, Percival Christopher
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: John Murray. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1952. Reprint. Hardcover. Price clipped DJ heavily chipped with a few tears with creasing, some loss head & tail of spine, faint name stamp on front free end paper. Small clip top fore edge of FFEP, front hinge intact, back hinge started but solid. ; Yellow paper covered boards shows light wear bottom edge, brown stamped titles front and spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 348 pages; This is the 3rd in a series of French Foreign Legion novels starting with Beau Geste and Beau Sabreur. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14736
- Title
- Beau Ideal
- Author
- Wren, Percival Christopher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- French foreign legion, sabreur, beau geste
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Historical;
Terms of Sale
Ainsworth Books
Satisfaction guaranteed - if I have made an error in the description, I will refund book and shipping both ways. If the customer just changes his/her mind I will only refund one shipping charge. Please contact me before sending a book back. Any dust jackets on books will have a Mylar protector. Books shipped from US or Canada.
About the Seller
Ainsworth Books
Biblio member since 2003
Chilliwack, British Columbia
About Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
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