Fifth Reading Book. (published for the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland and sold to pupils of National Schools at five pence each)
by Commissioners of National Education in Ireland
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Without dust jacket (none issued
- Seller
-
Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Alex. [Alexander] Thom & Co.: Dublin, 1887. Early printing thus. Hardcover. Good/Without dust jacket (none issued. Offered as a scarce title, despite difficult condition. 12mo, 7" tall, 380 pages with some intertextual woodcut illustration, black titles and decorations on beige cloth. A good, original hardcover with moderate shelf wear, fraying started at the top of the back strip cloth, light exterior soiling, internal binding shaken but secure, paper moderately yellowed with some scattered foxing and marginal finger staining, and a presentation inscription on the front endpaper. Fifth Reading Book. (published for the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland and sold to pupils of National Schools at five pence each)
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- Bookseller
- Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59488
- Title
- Fifth Reading Book. (published for the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland and sold to pupils of National Schools at five pence each)
- Author
- Commissioners of National Education in Ireland
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Without dust jacket (none issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early printing thus
- Publisher
- Alex. [Alexander] Thom & Co.: Dublin
- Date Published
- 1887
- Keywords
- Education, reading, IOreland, History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Education;
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Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded "Best Used Bookstore" multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike.
Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."
Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
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