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If I May
by A.A Milne
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Methuen & Co Ltd, 1924. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1924. Fifth Edition. 183 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting, causing binding to be shaky. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Ex Libris plate to front pastedown. Minor pencil marking to front free end paper and both paste-downs. Minor brown marks on pages 110-120. Binding is cocked. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Minor fraying to cloth at spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Top edge of text block is dust marked. Gilt lettering is darkened.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1656447213CLB
- Title
- If I May
- Author
- A.A Milne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Methuen & Co Ltd
- Date Published
- 1924
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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...
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