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Love of Seven Dolls
by Paul Gallico
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good.
- Seller
-
Petworth, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Michael Joseph, 1954. Hardcover. Good.. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First impression of the first edition. Dust jacket is scuffed top and bottom with small tears and rubbing and small loss to bottom front. Tape mending on iside of wrapper. Spine is faded. It is not price clipped. Illustrated cloth boards. Pages are age tanned but clean. Binding is tight. Signed by Paul Gallico on the flyleaf. Previous owner's signature dated Dec 54 opposite flyleaf. 12 mo. 1954
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- Bookseller
- Reader’s Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4534
- Title
- Love of Seven Dolls
- Author
- Paul Gallico
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Reader’s Books
Biblio member since 2019
Petworth, West Sussex
About Reader’s Books
Market town general antiquarian book shop specialising in literature, travel and history.
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....
- Age Tanned
- Age tanning, or browning, occurs over time on the pages of books. This process can show up on just the edges of pages, when...
- 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...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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