The Best Season on Record.
by Captain E Pennell-Elmhirst:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: George Routledge and sons, 1885. Second edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 15cm), vii, 211pp. 4 colour plates, text illustrations. Rebound in half red morocco, red cloth boards, gilt titling to the spine. The spine is rubbed and scuffed, there is some wear to the upper joint, a bookplate to the front pastedown, and some foxing of the preliminary pages; overall, this book is in good minus condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cornell Books Limited (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 70638
- Title
- The Best Season on Record.
- Author
- Captain E Pennell-Elmhirst:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: George Routledge and sons, 1885.
Terms of Sale
Cornell Books Limited
Returns accepted for any reason, provided that you notify us within 7 days of receipt. The customer is responsible for paying return shipping unless the book was not as described.
About the Seller
Cornell Books Limited
Biblio member since 2005
Tewkesbury
About Cornell Books Limited
We are a medium-sized bookshop located in a small country town in the west of England. The shop is open for business from 1030 to 1700 Monday to Saturday. The building is a fifteenth-century former public house. We are still awaiting the day when we find a book older than the shop itself!
Glossary
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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....
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- 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...