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Tumbling in the Hay
by Oliver St. John Gogarty
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
-
Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Tumbling in the Hay by Oliver St. John Gogarty
Hardcover, 1939, first edition, published by Constable and Company Ltd, 326 pages + xii.
Measures around 9" by 5 7/8" by 1 3/8". Dust jacket is a bit torn, tattered and chipped with some marking and scuffing. Black cloth binding, gilt lettering to spine, some marking to rear board but otherwise clean. Signs of shelf-wear. Binding firm. Lower page edges deckled, edges generally a little browned, marked, foxed and scuffed. Gift inscription to front free endpaper but otherwise page surfaces clean, with no marginalia, underlining, etc. See pictures for further information.
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- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-581
- Title
- Tumbling in the Hay
- Author
- Oliver St. John Gogarty
- Format/Binding
- Hardback, cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Constable and Company Ltd
- Pages
- 326+
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
GN Books and Prints
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
GN Books and Prints
Biblio member since 2022
Inverness, Highland
About GN Books and Prints
Seller based in the Scottish Highlands, dealing in a variety of books, including antiquarian, vintage and modern.
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- First Edition
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