The Chequer Board
by Shute, Nevil
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Red cloth. Spine toned, endsheets toned. Very good minus in good dust jacket with Book Society Choice on front flap, price 9s6d
- Seller
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HACKETTSTOWN, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
London: Heinemann, 1947. First edition. [vi], 317 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Red cloth. Spine toned, endsheets toned. Very good minus in good dust jacket with Book Society Choice on front flap, price 9s6d (spine panel and front fold rubbed). First edition. [vi], 317 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Men at Work 12.1.b
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Mill Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 322871
- Title
- The Chequer Board
- Author
- Shute, Nevil
- Format/Binding
- [vi], 317 pp. 1 vols. 12mo
- Book Condition
- Used - Red cloth. Spine toned, endsheets toned. Very good minus in good dust jacket with Book Society Choice on front flap, price 9s6d
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- British
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Old Mill Bookshop
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HACKETTSTOWN, New Jersey
About The Old Mill Bookshop
Founded in 1978 by James Cummins, the firm has grown to include two New Jersey locations as well as the main store at 699 Madison Avenue. The Madison avenue store is an oasis for book-lovers, a quiet and pleasantly furnished book room with a carefully chosen, expertly catalogued and broad-based selection of fine and rare books, autographs, manuscripts, and works of art.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- First Edition
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