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The Croquet Player
de H.G. Wells
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Muy bueno
- Librería
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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Sobre este artículo
First American edition hardcover, published by Viking, 1937. The story of Georgie,a frequent croquet player, who learns that there is something evil at work in the quiet English district known as Cainsmarsh. Novella length at 98 pages, 5-1/4" X 8-1/2". No dust jacket. Light gray colored cloth covered boards. Cover boards are flat, showing some smudges from use and a small stain mark on the back panel in the spine gutter, about 1/2" long. Former owner's bookplate on the inside front paste-down, about 3" X 4", partially removed. No further writing or ownership marks besides that bookplate. Not a library discard copy. Binding is tight and square. Edges of the text block are relatively clean considering the age of the book. Attached photos are of the copy we have in our inventory.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 23-06425
- Título
- The Croquet Player
- Autor
- H.G. Wells
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- The Viking Press
- Fecha de publicación
- 1937
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Horror;
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Hopkins Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2015
Nashua, New Hampshire
Sobre Hopkins Books
We're a small, independent, family run book seller specializing in current fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on Art, Art History, History, Memoirs, Travel Memoirs, Signed First Editions, and Literature in Translation.Do you have any questions about our books ? Let us know, we'd love to hear from you! Do you want to see a photo of a book before you order it ? We try to post as many photos as possbiel, but sometimes there will be a item in inventory that does not show a photo here. So feel free to ask for photos, we don't mind at all. We package all of our orders carefully either in a box that has been designed to ship books, or in a padded envelope. We want to make sure you receive your order in the best possible condition!Our preferred shipping method is USPS Media Mail. Recently, the USPS has added tracking to Media Mail , which has been a great addition to this service.If you do choose to have your order shipped "Expedited", my shipping cost may seem higher than expected. Some of our books are large format hardcovers that can cost quite a bit when shipped expedited. So I would like to make sure that I can cover the cost upfront. However, if the actual cost of expedited shipping is less than the charge, I will refund the difference!
Glosario
Algunos términos que podrían usarse en esta descripción incluyen:
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
