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The Love Nest And Other Stories
by Ring W. Lardner
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Philip Allan And Co Ltd, 1928. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1928. First Edition. 320 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Major foxing and tanning to text block edges and both hinges are cracked with exposed netting. There is cracks to guttering with exposed netting and rear endpaper is missing. Tears to rear pastedown. Boards have visible tanning and heavier bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends. Moderate sunning to spine as well.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1628864911EWY
- Title
- The Love Nest And Other Stories
- Author
- Ring W. Lardner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Philip Allan And Co Ltd
- Date Published
- 1928
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
About World of Rare Books
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Glossary
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
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