Harlequin Story. The History of the Harlequin Football Club. Published with the Approval and Authority of the Harlequin Football Club
by H. B. T. Wakelam
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Phoenix House Ltd., 1954. First Edition, First Impression. . Cloth Bound Boards. Good/Good. With 33 Plates and a Frontispiece. 1954 first edition, first impression. Size octavo, 172 pages. Green hard cover with gilt titles and harlequin vignette to the spine, with the dust jacket. Book condition good, corners and edges rubbed, slight fading to part of spine, gilt on spine dulled, page edges grubby along the bottom edge, top edge dust marked, old price in pencil to front end-paper otherwise the contents are clean. Dust jacket condition good, corners and spine ends rubbed chipped and creased, 1cm square piece chipped away from lower outer corner of front panel, spine sunned a little, not price clipped, protected. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lazarus Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017101
- Title
- Harlequin Story. The History of the Harlequin Football Club. Published with the Approval and Authority of the Harlequin Football Club
- Author
- H. B. T. Wakelam
- Illustrator
- With 33 Plates and a Frontispiece
- Format/Binding
- Cloth Bound Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Impression.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Phoenix House Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- NON FICTION SPORT RUGBY FOOTBALL RUGGER ENGLAND FIVE NATIONS VICTORY HISTORY AUTOBIOGRAPHY BIOGRAPHY BRITISH LIONS ANECDOTES GREAT BRITAIN ENGLISH
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About the Seller
Lazarus Books Limited
Biblio member since 2007
Blackpool, Lancashire
About Lazarus Books Limited
We are a small family business located in Blackpool, England. We stock a varied range of Antiquarian and Collectable Books; Antiquarian Holy Bibles, Fine Bindings, Literature, Poetry, Military, Travel, First Editions, Illustrated, Childrens', Signed Books and more.
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- 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...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 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...
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