This Was The Old Chief's Country
by Lessing, Doris
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Michael Joseph. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner's signature. Some spotting to page edges. Fading to dust wrapper spine. 5/8" tear at head of dust wrapper spine. 1/2" tear at head of rear joint of dust wrapper spine. 3/4" tear at tail of dust wrapper spine. 1/2" x 1/2" tear at head of rear panel of dust wrapper. Rubbing to ends of dust wrapper spine. Dust wrapper is not price-clipped. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 256 pages. First printing. Brown boards with gilt titles on spine. Page Dimensions: 185mm x 122mm. Short stories. The author's second book. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 256 .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6862
- Title
- This Was The Old Chief's Country
- Author
- Lessing, Doris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- English Literature
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
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About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...