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Garry Sobers: My Autobiography (Signed)
by Sobers, Garfield
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0755310063
- ISBN 13
- 9780755310067
- Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, UK: Headline, 2002. 1st Edition 2nd Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition, second printing. 344pp, three sections of colour and black and white photographic plates. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Lightly bumped spine heel. Text block edge and page margins tanned. Gutter stretched at title page, perhaps when author signed and inscribed, 'To Tony Happy Birthday...'. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some shelf wear, light chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped.
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- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010027
- Title
- Garry Sobers: My Autobiography (Signed)
- Author
- Sobers, Garfield
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 2nd Impression
- ISBN 10
- 0755310063
- ISBN 13
- 9780755310067
- Publisher
- Headline
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 2002
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Signed Books, Cricket, History of Sport
- X weight
- 0 kg
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- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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...
- 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....
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
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