A Word Carved on a Sill
by John Wain
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1958. Second Impression. 54 pages. Pink dust jacket over pink cloth. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen inscriptions to front endpaper and slight dog-eared pages throughout. Pencil inscriptions to rear endpaper and heavier foxing and tanning to text block edges. Boards have visible sunning and foxing with minor bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and visible sunning to spine. Unclipped jacket with visible edge wear, foxing and sunning. Heavy sunning to spine and heavier sunning to interior.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1634298394BDO
- Title
- A Word Carved on a Sill
- Author
- John Wain
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Routledge & Kegan Paul
- Date Published
- 1958
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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....