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Confessions of a Story-Teller
by Paul Gallico
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Michael Joseph, 1961. Hardcover. Good. 1961. First Edition Thus. 434 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Pages bright with some tanning and foxing, particularly to textblock edges and endpapers. Binding slightly loose. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners, crushing and fraying to spine ends and rubbing and slight staining all over. Gilt lettering is slightly dulled.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1693827633MXP
- Title
- Confessions of a Story-Teller
- Author
- Paul Gallico
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Date Published
- 1961
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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