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The Pattern of Perfection
by Hale, Nancy
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/good
- Seller
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Newark, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1960]. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/good. 8vo. [8], 248 pp. Bound in full black cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine, in illustrated dust jacket. First Edition stated on copyright page. Very Good+, foxing to endpapers and edges of text block, otherwise internally clean, rear hinge exposed but sound, fading to gilt on spine, fraying to head of spine, in Good dust jacket with 1" tears to head and tail of spine, chipping to extremities, wear and age-toning overall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Garnet Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003016
- Title
- The Pattern of Perfection
- Author
- Hale, Nancy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- [1960]
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Garnet Books
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Newark, New Jersey
About Garnet Books
Selling used books online since 2007.
Glossary
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- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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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