Western Germany
by Monk Gibbon
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1955. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1955. First Edition. 306 pages. Colour photographic dust jacket over dark red cloth with a colour photographic frontis and photographic black and white plates throughout. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen inscriptions to front endpaper and visible tanning to text block edges. Boards have visible sunning and rubbing with heavy bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and moderate sunning to spine. Clipped jacket with major edge wear and visible sunning. Heavier sunning to spine and splitting to joints and visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends. Visible foxing and sunning to interior.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1646401898EMB
- Title
- Western Germany
- Author
- Monk Gibbon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- B. T. Batsford Ltd
- Date Published
- 1955
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Glossary
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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
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.