The Peregrine
de J. A. Baker
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Good/Acceptable
- Librería
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
Country Book Club, 1968. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1968. Book Club Edition. 191 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Endpapers have strips of faint tanning caused by jacket. Slight thumbing to rear pastedown. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Spine slightly cocked. Gilt is bright. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Light tanning and water staining to spine and edges. Other mild marks.
Sinopsis
J. A. Baker is also the author of The Hill of Summer. He was a native of Essex, England. Robert Macfarlane ’s Mountains of the Mind (2003), about wilderness and the Western imagination, won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Guardian First Book Award, among other prizes.
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Detalles
- Librería
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1711359587ABS
- Título
- The Peregrine
- Autor
- J. A. Baker
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good/Acceptable
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Country Book Club
- Fecha de publicación
- 1968
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- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....