Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography
by Kingsley, Charles
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1908. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good+ ; No jacket. 1908 Thomas Nelson & Sons. Small hardcover, 4.25 x 6.25 inches, has flexible boards bound in full brown morocco leather with gold spine lettering and gold spine and cover decorations. Green and gold marbled endpapers. Red satin index ribbon. All page edges gilt over red. Half-title page has black illustrated border and red lettering. Black & white frontispiece with tissue guard. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Leather worn at tips and spine ends, with a small insipient exterior split starting near the head of the spine. Covers have light surface and edge wear. Covers lightly curled. Imprinted bookplate on front endpaper. First and last pages have light foxing at corners. Pages clean and unmarked. 485 pages. No dust jacket. Bottom inside edge of front cover has "Genuine Morocco - Royal India Paper" stamped in gold. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
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- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9904
- Title
- Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography
- Author
- Kingsley, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson & Sons
- Date Published
- 1908
- Keywords
- Literature,Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
SmarterRat Books
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio
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- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- 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...
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