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The Haven: A Chronicle
by Collins, Dale
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Kirkwall, Orkney, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Heinemann, 1925. No dustwrapper, minor creasing to the spine ends and shelf wear to bottom edge of black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine are still bright. Otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover novel. The story involves a rich and handsome film star who is hiding on a remote Pacific island to escape his adoring fans, and then finds that some of them have managed to track him down. 320pp plus 8pp adverts.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- JimsOldBooks
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- kw6958
- Title
- The Haven: A Chronicle
- Author
- Collins, Dale
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1925
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
JimsOldBooks
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About the Seller
JimsOldBooks
Biblio member since 2004
Kirkwall, Orkney
About JimsOldBooks
Based in Kirkwall, Orkney off the north coast of Scotland. No shop, internet sales only..
Glossary
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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....
- 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.
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- 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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