The Sapphire
by Mason, A. E. W
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1933. Hardcover. Previous owner's inscription dated 1939 on front endpaper. Some rubbing and wear to edges of dust-jacket. A 60mm tear at lower corner of front panel of dust-jacket along front joint. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; Reprint in Hodder and Stoughton's "Yellow Jacket" series. 320 pages. Blue cloth boards with black lettering on spine and front board, black pagoda illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 185 x 122mm. A novel, set in Burma and Ceylon. "I cannot pretend that the world is waiting for this story, for the world knows nothing about it." - the opening sentence. Dust-jacket price "3/6 NET". .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23101
- Title
- The Sapphire
- Author
- Mason, A. E. W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1933
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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...