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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1930. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Good. green cloth, gilt lettering, 320 pp, first edition, Shakespeare and Co. stamp on title page, spine faded, light foxing on front edge.
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- Bookseller
- San Francisco Book Company
(FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55096
- Title
- Castle Gay
- Author
- Buchan, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1930
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Jacket
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Cloth
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- First Edition
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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....
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