The New Abbey Girls
by Elsie J. Oxenham
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Children's Press, 1966. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1966. First edition thus. 124 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Pages are heavily tanned and foxed throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor chipping and creasing. Spine noticeably sunned.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1708537286LEE
- Title
- The New Abbey Girls
- Author
- Elsie J. Oxenham
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Children's Press
- Date Published
- 1966
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...