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'D' PORTRAIT OF A DON
by VENABLES Roger
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good with lightly foxed page edges. Very good boards with some rubbing to corners.
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Oxford,, 1967. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket.. Very good with lightly foxed page edges. Very good boards with some rubbing to corners.. 8vo. Pp: vii, 157. First edition. Navy buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine. With ALS from Roger Venables to Professor Thomas of Camborne Surrey mentioning that he is sending a copy of this book with additional comments on Piers Brendon's ""Hawker of Morwenstow"".
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- Bookseller
- Any Amount of Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C68317
- Title
- 'D' PORTRAIT OF A DON
- Author
- VENABLES Roger
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good with lightly foxed page edges. Very good boards with some rubbing to corners.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Oxford,
- Date Published
- 1967
- Pages
- vii, 157
- Keywords
- Education,
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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.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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