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Blue Hand
by Edgar Wallace
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
A. L. Burt Company, 1926. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1926. Second Printing. 327 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Heavy tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and major tanning to text block edges. Slight dog-eared pages throughout and both hinges are cracked with exposed netting. There is cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Binding is also very loose. Boards have moderate rubbing and heavier bumping to corners. Major crushing to spine ends and splitting to joints with distinctive rubbing to spine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1627568313IEV
- Title
- Blue Hand
- Author
- Edgar Wallace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- A. L. Burt Company
- Date Published
- 1926
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Biblio member since 2009
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
About World of Rare Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
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