Dark Star: Hiroshima Reconsidered in the Life of Calude Eatherly
by Ronnie Dugger
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Victor Gollancz, 1967. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1967. No Edition Remarks. 240 pages. Dust jacket over blue cloth with gilt lettering. Minor water staining, foxing and noticeable tanning to pages; text unaffected. More prominent to text block edges, slightly lighter to pastedowns and free endpapers. Light cracking to gutters and hinges but binding remains firm. Book is noticeably bowed and forward leaning with visible tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has similar tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Clipped dust jacket with moderate rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate tape repairing, tanning and scuffing overall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1709109008IEV
- Title
- Dark Star: Hiroshima Reconsidered in the Life of Calude Eatherly
- Author
- Ronnie Dugger
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz
- Date Published
- 1967
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...