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Cornish Notes & Queries (First Series). Reprinted from The Cornish Telegraph
by Peter Penn (ed.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Bristol, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Elliot Stock, London, 1906. First Thus. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 12mo - between 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 338 pp. Front hinge cracked. Main text block remains firmly bound. Spine cocked with chips to top and base. Endpapers browned, text has scattered foxing, but mostly clean. Previous owner's inscription in ink. Edges foxed and browned. Corners slightly bumped. Contains frontispiece. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Genealogy & Local History; England; Sociology & Culture. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 30478. .
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- Bookseller
- Dreadnought Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30478
- Title
- Cornish Notes & Queries (First Series). Reprinted from The Cornish Telegraph
- Author
- Peter Penn (ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Elliot Stock
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1906
- Keywords
- BZDB243 history, local, social, culture, myth, anthropology Genealogy & Local History; England; Sociology & Culture. Peter Penn (ed.) Cornish Notes & Queries (First Series). Reprinted from The Cornish Telegraph
- Bookseller catalogs
- Genealogy & Local History; Sociology & Culture;
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About Dreadnought Books
Founded in 2010, Dreadnought Books is a second-hand and out of print book dealer specialising in history, with a particular focus on military, social and labour history.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
- 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,...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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