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Raw Summer
by Jane Blackmore
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Collins, 1967. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1967. No Edition Remarks. 224 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Illustrative jacket over blue cloth. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Tearing to pages throughout. Annotations and marginalia to pages throughout. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Front and rear boards are loose but still attached. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Visible crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Brown marks to front and rear boards. Textblock is shaky. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Some tanning to spine. Notable rubbing to surfaces.
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Details
- Seller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1642757935IEV
- Title
- Raw Summer
- Author
- Jane Blackmore
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Collins
- Date Published
- 1967
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- 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....
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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