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The Drinking Well
de Neil M, Gunn
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- VG+/VG+/GD
- Librería
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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HARDBACK ""UNCOMMON,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1946 * Publisher: Faber & Faber. * Binding and cover condition: Emerald green cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine only. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear and slight marks to lower edges and tail of spine otherwise no visible faults. VG+.* Jacket condition: Text illustrated dust wrapper, red on beige, spine age darkened. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of 10/6d. Spine edges and flap folds show considerable shelf wear. Frayed and chipped to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Minor losses, now re-inforced and in a clear un-attached protective wrapper. GD. * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Gift dedication, dated May 1947 in pen to ffep. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with minimal reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks to end papers, all edges age darkened & lightly spotted, otherwise no visible faults. INTERESTINGLY THIS ITEM BEARS A SYDNEY BOOKSELLER'S LABEL. VG+.* Illustrations: None. * Pages: 464 pp. text. ii pp. blank at rear.* Description: Iain Cattanach loves to play the fiddle and wander the hills tending his father's sheep. However, his self-sacrificing mother has other plans for him. A position in an Edinburgh legal firm is secured for Iain and he is forced to leave the countryside he loves. The city is alluring and sophisticated but, ultimately, events force him to return to Torglas and to face up to his family and long-time companion, Mary Cameron. This work contains beautiful characterization and evocative description of early 20th-century Edinburgh..* A VG++ copy of the 1st./1st. with some age and wear in a GOOD protected dust jacket.*
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- Librería
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 10063
- Título
- The Drinking Well
- Autor
- Neil M, Gunn
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardcover.
- Estado del libro
- Usado - VG+/VG+/GD
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st, 1st. Imp.
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Faber & Faber
- Fecha de publicación
- 1946-01-01
- Páginas
- 466
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
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Cocksparrow Books
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
Sobre Cocksparrow Books
Cocksparrow Books have been selling high quality books for over thirty years, now solely on-line. We concentrate on non-fiction items and early edition fiction (including some soft-backs). Our book condition descriptions are fully detailed to give our customers the best information possible and we are always pleased to provide further information upon request.
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
