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Second Saint Omnibus. An Anthology of Saintly Adventures
by Leslie Charteris
- 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
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1952. Hardcover. Good. 1952. First Edition. 634 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Bright and clean pages with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with mild thumb-marking. Minor tears to gutter by title page. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Notable droplet staining to text block edges. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and mild marking to boards. Heavy sunning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Moderate water stains to front board. Books has a backward lean.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1705570863IEV
- Title
- Second Saint Omnibus. An Anthology of Saintly Adventures
- Author
- Leslie Charteris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
- Date Published
- 1952
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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