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Delius: Portrait of a Cosmopolitan
by Christopher Palmer
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0715607731
- ISBN 13
- 9780715607732
- Seller
-
Kidderminster, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. 0715607731 . Sl wear to tail of spine bds, light spotting to text block edge, verso of 1/2 title page and both sides of frontis, previous owner's name/date to paste-down. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 199 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lion Books PBFA
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 68163
- Title
- Delius: Portrait of a Cosmopolitan
- Author
- Christopher Palmer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0715607731
- ISBN 13
- 9780715607732
- Publisher
- Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- 0715607731
Terms of Sale
Lion Books PBFA
Full refund if found to be not as described. For all other reasons e.g. damage, change of mind then book value only. Please contact within 14 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Lion Books PBFA
Biblio member since 2005
Kidderminster, Worcestershire
About Lion Books PBFA
We are general secondhand booksellers, est 1987, with a medium size stock and we specialise in sporting books. Particularly Football (soccer), Fishing and Motorsport.
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- 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....
- 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....
- BDS
- Common term for the covers of a hardbound book. The term 'boards' refers to the thick cardboard under the paper or cloth...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
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