Lassie Come Home
by Eric Knight
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964. Hardcover. Good. 1964. First Edition Thus. 221 pages. No dust jacket. Red and grey cloth illustrative boards with gilt lettering to spine. Colour frontispiece & Black and white illustrative plates by Lilian Obligado. Binding remains firm. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Crushing to spine ends. Tanning to spine and edges. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Boards are bowed.
Reviews
On Jun 22 2011, Samandtweet said:
This is a very touching and wonderful book. I read it many many times as a child and it was my inspiration for getting a collie of my own
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1647265735MHP
- Title
- Lassie Come Home
- Author
- Eric Knight
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Holt, Rinehart and Winston
- Date Published
- 1964
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 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...