The Gift Shop
by Charlotte Armstrong
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Collins, 1967. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1967. First Edition Thus. 254 pages. Dust jacket over green cloth. Clean pages with faint foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Slight cracking to front hinge. Boards have light edge wear with minor corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall. Mild tanning to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Moderate water staining to spine. Mild tanning to spine and panel edges. Light rubbing and marking all over.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1700659872MXP
- Title
- The Gift Shop
- Author
- Charlotte Armstrong
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Collins
- Date Published
- 1967
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...