Ordeal
by Shute, Nevil
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Wm. Morrow, 1939. First edition. HC w DJ. MV Good+/Poor. Navy blue cloth boards, dulled gilt lettering, spotting, fading to edges, light edgewear, top-edge dark blue stain, deckled fore-edge, endpapers toned, FO plate to FPEP, FO name in ink to FFEP, text clean. Heavily worn unclipped DJ (no price), rubbed, heavy chipping w sections missing, creases. PLEASE NOTE: We are happy to provide photos. Please contact us for any specific requests. BUYING AND SELLING USED AND RARE BOOKS FROM HISTORIC EAST NASHVILLE SINCE 2012.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Refuge Books: Used & Rare (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 190226
- Title
- Ordeal
- Author
- Shute, Nevil
- Format/Binding
- HC w DJ
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Wm. Morrow
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
- Pages
- 280
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Refuge Books: Used & Rare
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Nashville, Tennessee
About Refuge Books: Used & Rare
Refuge Books: Used & Rare. Buying and selling books in historic east Nashville, TN since 2012. Specializing in history, biography, Civil War, books on books, theology, Louisiana, the Inklings, G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy Sayers, Wendell Berry, Flannery O'Connor, George Macdonald, Thomas Mann, Madeleine L'Engle, and Frederick Buechner. We welcome any and all inquiries.Instagram: @refugebooks
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...