OUR MUTUAL FRIEND by Dickens, Charles
- Bookseller: Aunt Teek's Novel Shoppe
(US)
- Seller Inventory #: 12058
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good- with no Dust Jacket
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Chapman & Hall, Ltd.
- Place: London
- Date published: N.D.
Description
London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd.. Very Good- with no Dust Jacket. N.D.. Hardcover. Green cloth boards, gilt decorated spine lightly fading. Hinging, foxing. Circa early 1900s 12mo - 7" to 7½" tall 523 pp 12058N --img .
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
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. Also known as the back.
12mo : An abbreviation for duodecimo, a book size describing a book which is approximately 7 by 4.5 inches.
gilt : Decorative patterns imbedded into the affected portion of a book. Often appears on the boards or the spine, and may be very simple, to elegant, to ludicrous.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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