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Service Most Silent
by John Frayn Turner
- 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
George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1955. Hardcover. Good. 1955. First Edition. 200 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with mild tanning and notable foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Heavy foxing to text block edges. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and mild marking to boards. Notable tanning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped.
Synopsis
Originally published: London : Harrap, 1955.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1710940296ADA
- Title
- Service Most Silent
- Author
- John Frayn Turner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd
- Date Published
- 1955
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
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- 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....
- 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...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
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