The Golden Age
by Kenneth Grahame
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good-/No jacket
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Sextodecimo/16mo. Measures around 6 7/8" by 4 7/8" by 3/4". Burgundy leatherette binding on flexible boards, gilt detail and lettering to front board. Discolouration to spine, gilt lettering there has mostly faded. Also discolouration to edges of boards. Book fans out a little towards outer edges. Scuffing and signs of shelf-wear, slightly bumped corners. Cloth ribbon marker, a little tattered and foxed. Binding firm. Upper page edges gilt. Outer and lower page edges browned and marked, all page edges scuffed. Some marking and discolouration to endpapers. The odd mark but page surfaces generally clean, no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.
Synopsis
Looking back to those days of old, ere the gate shut behind me, I can see now that to children with a proper equipment of parents these things would have worn a different aspect. But to those whose nearest were aunts and uncles, a special attitude of mind may be allowed. They treated us, indeed, with kindness enough as to the needs of the flesh, but after that with indifference (an indifference, as I recognise, the result of a certain stupidity), and therewith the commonplace conviction that your child is merely animal.
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- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-625
- Title
- The Golden Age
- Author
- Kenneth Grahame
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson & Sons, Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- Circa 1930s
- Pages
- 287
- Size
- 16mo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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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...
- 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...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- 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...