George Routledge & Sons Ltd., 1944. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1944. Fifth Edition. 622 pages. No dust jacket. Navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Pages are lightly tanned with mild foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper, with a few small nicks and rub marks along text block edge. Minor dog-eared corners. Mild cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Occasional thumb-marking present throughout. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with mild bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Heavy tanning to spine, with visible crushing to spine ends. Book has a pronounced forward lean. Liquid drops and bubbling to front and rear boards.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1692709058IEV
Title: The Knapsack: A Pocket-book of Prose and Verse
Author: Herbert Read (Ed.)
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: George Routledge & Sons Ltd.
Date Published: 1944

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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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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....
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
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....
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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...
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...