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Hym: the Life Story of a Famous Fox
by Cyril Heber Percy
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Petworth, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber, 1959. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dust jacket is not price clipped. Slight wear to edges but very good for its age. Pink cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine.Pages are age-tanned but clean. Binding is tight. Charming drawings by Michael Lyne. The story of a famous Cottesmore Hunt dog-fox. 1959
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- Bookseller
- Reader’s Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3135
- Title
- Hym: the Life Story of a Famous Fox
- Author
- Cyril Heber Percy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1959
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Reader’s Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Reader’s Books
Biblio member since 2019
Petworth, West Sussex
About Reader’s Books
Market town general antiquarian book shop specialising in literature, travel and history.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
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