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Time in the East
by Evan John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Poor
- Seller
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Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
William Heinemann, Great Britain, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Poor. Cloth Boards & Dust Jacket, 8vo, 230 pages fair-gd condition Dust Jacket has some fading/rubbing, tearing, pc, clean Cloth Boards, pages clean, foxing to edges. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket intact with flaps, but has chunk missing from spine, and other signs of wear. Edges foxed and browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Travel & Places; All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: X21432. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- X21432
- Title
- Time in the East
- Author
- Evan John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- Great Britain
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- BZDB1 biography travel Travel & Places; Evan John Time in the East
Terms of Sale
Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
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About the Seller
Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Biblio member since 2004
Katoomba, New South Wales
About Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Mr Pickwick's occupies a large, 3-storey former Bank building in the heart of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia. We carry over 60,000 books in store, and cater to both the specialist collector trade as well as the general book trade in this region. Mr Pickwick's is one of the most comprehensive bookshops in Australia, and also operates an extensive Bookfinder service for its several thousand database clients.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
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- Cloth
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- 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...
- First Edition
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- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- PC
- Partially chipped (dustjacket)
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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