The Slide Area: Scenes of Hollywood Life
by Gavin Lambert
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hamish Hamilton, 1959. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1959. Reprint. 223 pages. Dust jacket over green cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown and to both endpapers. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has forward lean. Notable mottling. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Notable foxing. Heavy tanning to spine and edges. Notable rubbing and marking all over.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1714393492DPB
- Title
- The Slide Area: Scenes of Hollywood Life
- Author
- Gavin Lambert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Date Published
- 1959
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...