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Understanding Book Collecting
by Grant Uden
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG++/VG++
- ISBN 10
- 0907462138
- ISBN 13
- 9780907462132
- Seller
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Lutterworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club, 1988. The lore and mysteries of book collecting uncovered. Includes the language and technical aspects of book collecting. Brown covers with gilt lettering to spine and front, 279pp inc index, with numerous b/w illustrations. Book has light smudge to top page edges and light, small (1cmx2cm) stain at tail of cover, otherwise book is faultless, in similar DJ. A very nice copy. Ref:071517. Reprint. Cloth. VG++/VG++. 14x22cm.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Church Street Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001517
- Title
- Understanding Book Collecting
- Author
- Grant Uden
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++
- Jacket Condition
- VG++
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0907462138
- ISBN 13
- 9780907462132
- Publisher
- Antique Collectors' Club
- Place of Publication
- Woodbridge, Suffolk
- Date Published
- 1988
Terms of Sale
Church Street Books
payment with order. Refund if description inaccurate
About the Seller
Church Street Books
Biblio member since 2007
Lutterworth, Leicestershire
About Church Street Books
Second-hand book dealer (formerly in a Diss Shop), with a stock of around 2000 books from modern quality literature to reference, aviation, classics and antiquarian
Glossary
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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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.