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The Waif Of the River
by Farnol, Jeffery
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Sampson Low, London, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/No Dust Jacket. X, 294 pages. Red coloured boards with black decoration to the edges of the front board and black titles to the front panel and backstrip. Bumping and rubbing to the head and to the heel of the backstrip and to the book corners. Fading and rubbing to the backstrip and there are also a few stains present. Light browning and offset tanning to the endpapers and light age toning to the internal pages. Browning and foxing to the text block edges and there are some stains to the front fore and lower text block edges. A previous owner has placed the number 916 and the date 4/9/90, in pencil, to the top edge of the front paste-down and the gift inscription is present to the top left-hand corner to the verso of the free front end paper. The publication data says that this is a first edition " First Published in 1952 ", but on the title page underneath the author's name in small type, other words " Overseas Edition " are printed. A historical romance. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Fiction -- Historical; Fiction -- Romance; Inventory No: 0106585. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0106585
- Title
- The Waif Of the River
- Author
- Farnol, Jeffery
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Sampson Low
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Novel -- Historical -- Romance Fiction; Fiction -- Historical; Fiction -- Romance; Unbranded Farnol, Jeffery The Waif Of the River
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction -- Historical; Fiction -- Romance;
Terms of Sale
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
transaction in Australian $'s for checks and money orders.If the book is not as described, return within 14 days, for a refund of the cost of the book.
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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