Blackcock's Feather: A Plain Cloak-and-Sword Story Rendered From the Scots and Gaelic
by WALSH, MAURICE
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Angus & Robertson 1937. Octavo, red heavy boards, black lettering to spine & front board, 318pp, VG (light scuffing to spine & extrems, spine sl cocked, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sm gift inscription in ink to ffep, heavy cracking to gutters, light foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing & loss to edges, moderate chafing & soiling)
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- Title
- Blackcock's Feather: A Plain Cloak-and-Sword Story Rendered From the Scots and Gaelic
- Author
- WALSH, MAURICE
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Angus & Robertson 1937
- Keywords
- novels fiction literature adventure Maurice Walsh
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- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...