THE AGE OF FABLE
by Bulfinch, Thomasa
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Everyman's Library. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1944. Reprint. Hardcover. A good 1944 reprint hardcover (number 472 in the Everyman's Series) in a fair dustwrapper. The book is in clean blue boards bumped/rubbed to the corners, binding shaken but secure, front endpaper clipped at the top, unmarked ivory pages. The aged somewhat soiled dustwrapper is creased/rubbed to the edges with tiny chips to the spine ends/tips supplied in a new removable archival sleeve. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland.; Everyman's Library; Vol. 803 .
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Bookshelf
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32066
- Title
- THE AGE OF FABLE
- Author
- Bulfinch, Thomasa
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Everyman's Library
- Date Published
- 1944
Terms of Sale
The Old Bookshelf
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About the Seller
The Old Bookshelf
Biblio member since 2005
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:
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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