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London: Jonathan Cape, 1943. New edition. Good/fair. Hardcover : pp. [1-4] 5- 427 [428] 429431 [432] : Burgundy cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine : Top edge dyed red : Black dust jacket with red and white illustration by R. A. Atkinson: Price clipped : Book shop stamp on paste-down.
Head and tail of spine a little pushed : Faint scratch on middle of spine : Foxing to fore-edge and tail : Dust jacket edges a little worn and chipped, 2cm by 1cm wear mark on cover. "New edition with additional chapters including an account of Germany's invasion of Austria, and a discussion of the position of Czechoslovakia since that event." (from dust jacket).
Head and tail of spine a little pushed : Faint scratch on middle of spine : Foxing to fore-edge and tail : Dust jacket edges a little worn and chipped, 2cm by 1cm wear mark on cover. "New edition with additional chapters including an account of Germany's invasion of Austria, and a discussion of the position of Czechoslovakia since that event." (from dust jacket).
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- Bookseller
- Archives Fine Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1575
- Title
- Insanity Fair
- Author
- REED, Douglas
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- New edition
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1943
- Keywords
- Austria, World War Two
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- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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