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The Character Of A Convent Displayed In The Awful Disclosures Of Maria Monk Being A Narrative Of Her Sufferings During A Residence Of Five Years As A Novice And Two Years As A Black Nun, In The Hotel
by Maria Monk
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Houlston & Stoneman, 1851. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1851. No Edition Remarks. 174 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Black and white frontispiece. Binding remains firm. Crinkling to pages at gutters. Pages are moderately tanned throughout. Thumb marking present. Occasional foxing. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. There is bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Splits to spine joints. Tanning to spine and edges. Gilt lettering is darkened and faded. Boards are bowed. Book has a slight forward lean.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1638380060GEO
- Title
- The Character Of A Convent Displayed In The Awful Disclosures Of Maria Monk Being A Narrative Of Her Sufferings During A Residence Of Five Years As A Novice And Two Years As A Black Nun, In The Hotel
- Author
- Maria Monk
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houlston & Stoneman
- Date Published
- 1851
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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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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...
- 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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