Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1902. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1902. No Edition Remarks. 247 pages. No dust jacket. Half bound ivory leather with marbled paper covered boards and gilt lettering to spine. Pages are heavily tanned and foxed throughout. Some thumb prints and other marks in places and some page corners folded. Pencil annotations to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners, crushing to spine ends and heavy rubbing and staining all over. Gilt lettering is dulled.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1693463841ALK
Title: A Double-Barrelled Detective Story
Author: Mark Twain
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Bernhard Tauchnitz
Date Published: 1902

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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
Marbled Paper: Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
Half Bound: ...
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....
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...