Wintersmoon
by Hugh Walpole
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1933. Hardcover. Good. 1933. No edition remarks. 620 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth with gilt lettering. Pages have mild tanning and foxing throughout. Moderate cracking to gutters, with exposed binding. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Mild tanning and foxing to text block edges. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Notable sunning to board edges. Mild scratching and marking to boards. Faint mottling. Heavy sunning to spine, which has mild crushing and wear to ends.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1691757653MHP
- Title
- Wintersmoon
- Author
- Hugh Walpole
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co., Limited
- Date Published
- 1933
Terms of Sale
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....