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The Flowers of Adonis
by Sutcliff, Rosemary
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Skipton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York:: Coward-McCann,. Hardback. Signed by Rosemary Sutcliff to the title page. First US edition of this historical novel for older children. 383pp. Maps to endpapers. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt publisher's device to the frontis very clean though very slightly sunned to edges. slightly softened to spine ends. Dust jacket is a little dull and dusty with a faint red splash mark of ink to the back and rubbing and rolling to spine ends. Small chip to top edge of dust jacket tot eh front. Binding is sound. Good+, sound copy in good dust jacket . Hardback. First US Edition. 1970.
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Details
- Bookseller
- C L Hawley
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24343
- Title
- The Flowers of Adonis
- Author
- Sutcliff, Rosemary
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Coward-McCann,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- Rosemary Sutcliff,Children's historical novels,Signed children's books,, Children's literature,Signed books
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
C L Hawley
Biblio member since 2005
Skipton, North Yorkshire
About C L Hawley
We are a member of the PBFA and ibooknet -www.ibooknet.co.uk Our specialisms are academic books particularly literary criticism, literary biography, literary texts and literary and critical theory, history, plus some philosophy, psychology, politics and religion. We also stock local history books, mainly on Yorkshire. We also stock children's literature. We have a small general stock in the wider academic arts and humanities.
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.
- 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...
- 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...
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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