Jamaica, An Island Mosaic
by Peter Abrahams
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1957. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1957. First Edition. 284 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Colour frontispiece. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Some page corners folded. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1703670184LEE
- Title
- Jamaica, An Island Mosaic
- Author
- Peter Abrahams
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Her Majesty's Stationery Office
- Date Published
- 1957
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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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...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...