An English Almanac - An Introduction to the English Year, its Calendar, Traditions, Anniversaries and Events
by Hadfield, Miles
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Harwich Port, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
London: J.M. Dent, 1950. Book. Illus. by Hadfield, Miles. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. Tall 8vo.. London: Dent, 1970. First edition. Tall 8vo. Attractive blue cloth binding with decoration to front board and spine in gilt, gilt titles. Decorated endpapers. Decorated title. 225 pp. With over 60 illustrations by the author in black and white. Small chip at top of spine. Endpapers foxed. Text block clean. No writing inside. Dust jacket has wear to folds and extremities. Internally repaired with archival tape. Very good in good dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover..
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- Bookseller
- Rose's Books, IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017482
- Title
- An English Almanac - An Introduction to the English Year, its Calendar, Traditions, Anniversaries and Events
- Author
- Hadfield, Miles
- Illustrator
- Hadfield, Miles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- J.M. Dent
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1950
- Size
- Tall 8vo.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Rare Literature and Fiction; British History;
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About the Seller
Rose's Books, IOBA
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Harwich Port, Massachusetts
About Rose's Books, IOBA
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Jacket
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