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Book of English International Rugby, 1871-1982
by Griffiths, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG++/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0002180065
- ISBN 13
- 9780002180061
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1982* Publisher: Willow Books ~ Collins.* Binding and cover condition: Bright red cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to head of spine. VG++* Jacket condition: B/w photo and text illustrated dust wrapper, black titles to spine and face. Overall somewhat aged & grubby. Price clipped, showing no shelf price. Some slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks to top & fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: Numerous b/w photos within text throughout.* Pages: 496 pp. text. i pp. blank page at rear.* Description: Vital rugby reference giving reports and line-ups of every England match since the first in 1871. Set to become the standard work on the history of International Rugby.* A NEAR VG++ text copy of the 1st/1st with some minor faults in a VG protected dust jacket.*
Synopsis
Skellig is a children's novel by David Almond, for which Almond was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1998 and also the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award. In 2007 it was selected by judges of the CILIP Carnegie Medal for children's literature as one of the ten most important children's novels of the past 70 years.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 392
- Title
- Book of English International Rugby, 1871-1982
- Author
- Griffiths, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG++/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0002180065
- ISBN 13
- 9780002180061
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Distribution Services
- Place of Publication
- UK 480
- Date Published
- 1982-10-28
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- 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...
- 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...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- VG
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