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Just William
by Richmal Crompton
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
George Newnes Limited, 1960. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1960. Forty-Second Impression. 251 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis and illustrated plates throughout. Major tanning to pages with pen and pencil inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Distinctive tanning to text block edges and binding is loose. Front hinge is cracked with exposed netting. Boards have minor rubbing and visible bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket with visible edge wear and rubbing. Splitting to joints and visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends. Major sunning to interior.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1641811834IEV
- Title
- Just William
- Author
- Richmal Crompton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George Newnes Limited
- Date Published
- 1960
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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