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Fifty-Two Stories of the British Army
by Alfred H. Miles
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Hutchinson, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Stated. 457 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. B&W frontispiece. Mild brown staining to pages on occasion. Top 2cm of title page cut out. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Front hinge cracked. Some gutter cracking. Moderate wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with splitting and loss to spine ends. Notable sunning to spine and board edges, with scuffing, staining and soiling to boards. Book has a forward lean.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1664288168BPB
- Title
- Fifty-Two Stories of the British Army
- Author
- Alfred H. Miles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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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....
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
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