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The Sacred River: An Approach to James Joyce
by L A G Strong
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1949. Hardcover. Good. 1949. First Edition. 160 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Pages bright with some tanning and foxing, particularly to textblock edges and endpapers. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil annotations to front pastedown. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces mildy tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering is slightly dulled.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1693926750LEE
- Title
- The Sacred River: An Approach to James Joyce
- Author
- L A G Strong
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Methuen & Co. Ltd.
- Date Published
- 1949
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- 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...
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