The Devil's Mantle
by Packard, Frank L
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
UK: Hodder & Stoughton, 1934. Boards rubbed and stained, corners and head/foot of spine bumped, spine edges worn, uncut edges browned with some spotting, torn label to verso pastedown, fep/rep lightly foxed, reading edge of rep torn with some loss, binding sprung and cocked, several stains to foot of pages 6 and 7, stamp to corner at foot of page 7, pp clean and clear to read, gutters cracked but pp secure in binding.. Hard. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookcase
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59171
- Title
- The Devil's Mantle
- Author
- Packard, Frank L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1934
- Size
- 12mo
Terms of Sale
Bookcase
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Bookcase
Biblio member since 2009
Carlisle, Cumbria
About Bookcase
A Georgian four-floor antiquarian bookshop in Carlisle's historic quarter specialising in Cumbria, Scotland, Mountaineering and rare finds. We are a friendly business, which was started by a local family and is run by friendly and experienced team members.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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