Blue Remembered Hills
by Showell Styles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Faber and Faber Limited, 1965. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1965. First Edition. 189 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Pictorial dust jacket covered in removable plastic wrapper over blue cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Ex-Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Reinforcement to hinges. Pages are lightly tanned with rubbing and a few small nicks along text block edge. Minor dog-eared corners. Mild cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Tape marks to free endpapers and paste-downs, with visible thumb-marking present throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with minor corner bumping and mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a prominent forward lean and subtle bow. Unclipped plastic-wrapped jacket appears to have moderate signs of surface wear.
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Details
- Seller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1692771206ADA
- Title
- Blue Remembered Hills
- Author
- Showell Styles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber Limited
- Date Published
- 1965
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 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....