Handley Cross: or Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt
by R. S. Surtees
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG/VG
- Seller
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Lutterworth, Leicestershire
Item Price:
$14.31
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About This Item
London: Methuen, 1963. Based on the original 1854 edition. Red covers with white lettering, 782pp with 51 woodcuts and 17 colour illustrations, inc frontis. Covers have very little wear, slightly bumped head and foot of spine, dusty, yellowing page edges, otherwise internally very clean and tight. Unclipped DJ has very little wear and is in a protective jacket. Ref:104567. Reprint. Cloth. VG/VG. Illus. by John Leech. 12x18cm.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Church Street Books
(GB)
- Bookseller Inventory #
- 004567
- Title
- Handley Cross: or Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt
- Author
- R. S. Surtees
- Illustrator
- John Leech
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket condition
- VG
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Methuen
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date published
- 1963
- Size
- 12x18cm
Terms of Sale
Church Street Books
payment with order. Refund if description inaccurate
About the Seller
Church Street Books
Biblio.com member since: 2007
Lutterworth, Leicestershire
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About Church Street Books
Second-hand book dealer (formerly in a Diss Shop), with a stock of around 2000 books from modern quality literature to reference, aviation, classics and antiquarian
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- VG/VG
- Very Good Condition book with a Very Good Condition dust jacket. Very Good Condition indicates a used book that does show some...[more]
- 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...[more]
- spine
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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...[more]
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...[more]
- tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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