Hamilton Adams and Co London 1890 Poor (no dj, royal blue cloth with gilt titles on darkened spine, light wear top and base of spine and corners lightly bumped, browning to grubby endpapers with pencil scribble, front and back hinges heavily cracked, contents of Section 2 are shaken with browning to page edges of this section) octavo 384pp. Third edition.Three Series in one volume. Stories for reading aloud.

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Bookseller: lobstabooks (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 52939
Title: HUMOROUS READINGS FOR HOME AND HALL
Author: Charles B Neville editor:
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hamilton Adams and Co London 1890
Bookseller catalogs: Antiquarian;

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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...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Poor: A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
Shaken: A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Cracked: In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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...
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....