United Kingdom: Pickering & Inglis. Good in Fair dust jacket. N.D.. Hardcover. A Good undated (1940's ?) hardcover in a Fair unclipped dustjacket. The book is in red cloth boards with black illustration and titles, bumped to the spine ends and corners. Internally, soiling to the front paste down, front endpaper removed, color frontispiece, no writing or stamps, ivory pages. The bright, illustrated dustjacket has small area of light pen scribble on front, with light soiling to back, rubbing and creasing to edges, and chipping and loss to corners of spine head and top of back cover - supplied in a new removable archival sleeve. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland. .

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Bookseller: The Old Bookshelf (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 13669
Title: The Castle on the Cliff
Author: MacLeod, Kathleen M
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good in Fair dust jacket
Publisher: Pickering & Inglis
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
Date Published: N.D.
Bookseller catalogs: General Fiction; Juv Adventure;

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About The Old Bookshelf

Welcome to the home of The Old Bookshelf, situated in Campbeltown on the West Coast of Scotland. Our wee bookshop holds over 15,000 New, Antiquarian, Out of Print and Used titles available for immediate despatch. We maintain a wide general stock, specialising in local, Scottish, maritime and military. Out of print and new titles are catalogued every day.Scottish Independent Retail Awards Regional Finalist: 2011 and 2015. Winner 2016

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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

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...
Chipping: A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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....