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Winning Tales from Scottish Houses
by Not Available [Unknown]
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0862411335
- ISBN 13
- 9780862411336
- Seller
-
Sorn, East Ayrshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
UNKNOWN, 1987-09-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 179pp. (blue spine) 8vo. sized. 1986. First Edition. A lovely, clean, tight very good plus copy in similar jacket. No inscriptions but a neat former owner's printed bookplate is pasted to the front paste-down. The text supported by some photographic reproductions. Original publisher's blue boards - gilt embossed to the spine. Slight bumps to the head and tail of the spine. The jacket has been price-clipped and is a little faded to the spine. A very good copy indeed. Published by Canongate and not by DuFour editions as the library info. suggests.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Trumpington Fine Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU008876
- Title
- Winning Tales from Scottish Houses
- Author
- Not Available [Unknown]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0862411335
- ISBN 13
- 9780862411336
- Publisher
- UNKNOWN
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1987-09-01
- X weight
- 28 oz
Terms of Sale
Trumpington Fine Books Limited
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
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- Bookplate
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
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