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The Corner-Stone (1st edition)
by OLDENBOURG, Zoe
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Grange over Sands, Cumbria, United Kingdom
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About This Item
OLDENBOURG, Zoe
The Corner-Stone (1st edition)
Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1954, 1st Edition, hardback with dust wrapper, GD/gd, boards red/gilt, 528 pp.
Boards edge worn, top edge and spine tail sunned, bump to fore-edge corner of back board, no inscription or annotations, sound tight binding, pages tanned, edges of text block dust stained with foxing, pale foxing to end papers. Appreciable shelf wear to wrapper (see scans), price not clipped, now protected by acid-free archive film.
By the author of "The World is not enough"
FICTION, COLLECTABLE, 1ST EDITION, OLDENBOURG ZOE, FRENCH NOVEL, ENGLISH TRANSLATION
46671 FIC/COLL/O £15.00
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- Bookseller
- Daisyroots Books Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46671
- Title
- The Corner-Stone (1st edition)
- Author
- OLDENBOURG, Zoe
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Pages
- 528 pp.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- FICTION, COLLECTABLE, 1ST EDITION, OLDENBOURG ZOE, FRENCH NOVEL, ENGLISH TRANSLATION
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION Collectable;
Terms of Sale
Daisyroots Books Ltd
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Daisyroots Books Ltd
Biblio member since 2008
Grange over Sands, Cumbria
About Daisyroots Books Ltd
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Glossary
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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....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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