Essays About Men, Women, and Books
by Augustine Birrell
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Eliot Stock, 1894. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1894. 233 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with previous owners plate to front pastedown. Heavy tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Major tanning to text block edges and rough cut edges as well. There is also cracking to both hinges making book shaky. Boards have moderate rubbing and fair bumping to corners. Noticeable crushing to spine ends and tanning to spine as well.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1605266901EMB
- Title
- Essays About Men, Women, and Books
- Author
- Augustine Birrell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Eliot Stock
- Date Published
- 1894
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
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.
- 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...
- 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....