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The Young Queen: The Life Story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
by Winn, Godfrey
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, UK: Hutchinson, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Bodle, Robert Talbot (designer). 112pp, 8 colour photographic plates (inc. frontispiece). Red cloth-covered boards with gilt design to front, titles to spine. 8vo. Spine ends rubbed and rounded, cloth wearing. Corners and bottom edges lightly rubbed. Slight mottling to boards. Text block edges starting to fox. Illustrated endpapers, tear along bottom of front free endpaper resulting in loss of approx 4cm across the page. Internally, neat clean bright and tight. Dust jacket has shelf wear, loss at spine head, several tears, chipping, light foxing inside, reflects volume condition. A beautifully illustrated book in both black and white and colour throughout. An insight into the young Queen's life, told at the time of her approaching Coronation.
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- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014101
- Title
- The Young Queen: The Life Story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
- Author
- Winn, Godfrey
- Illustrator
- Bodle, Robert Talbot (designer)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1952
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
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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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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