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WRITERS' AND ARTISTS' YEAR BOOK 1955
by [???]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
United Kingdom: Adam and Charles Black. Fair in Fair dust jacket. 1955. Hardcover. SOLD AS A READING COPY - A Good hardcover in Good Minus dustjacket. Book is in generally clean boards, with damp ripple to the front board, very rubbed and bumped to corners, rubbed to all edges. The spine is rubbed and bumped with a one inch separation at the gutter. Internally very good, no writing or stamps, unmarked tanned pages, quite tanned and somewhat soiled to the text-block edges. The dustjacket is rubbed to all edges, with small losses at spine ends and corners- supplied in a new removable archival sleeve. Carefully packaged and posted within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 402 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Bookshelf
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5126
- Title
- WRITERS' AND ARTISTS' YEAR BOOK 1955
- Author
- [???]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair in Fair dust jacket
- Publisher
- Adam and Charles Black
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- Year Book
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Terms of Sale
The Old Bookshelf
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About the Seller
The Old Bookshelf
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Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute
About The Old Bookshelf
Welcome to the home of The Old Bookshelf, situated in Campbeltown on the West Coast of Scotland. Our wee bookshop holds over 15,000 New, Antiquarian, Out of Print and Used titles available for immediate despatch. We maintain a wide general stock, specialising in local, Scottish, maritime and military. Out of print and new titles are catalogued every day.Scottish Independent Retail Awards Regional Finalist: 2011 and 2015. Winner 2016
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- 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...
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