The Little Duke
by Charlotte M. Yonge
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
The Sheldon Press, 1931. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1931. Reissued Edition. 160 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green pictorial boards with black lettering. Pages are moderately tanned with mild foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Presentation plate stuck to crinkled front free endpaper, with a few small nicks along text block edge. Minor dog-eared corners. Pencil inscription to rear paste-down. Boards have light shelf-wear with minor corner bumping and mild crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket has heavy surface wear, with some areas of loss, very heavy tears, chips and creasing to front panel, spine and edges. Moderate sunning to spine.
Synopsis
On a bright autumn day, as long ago as the year 943, there was a great bustle in the Castle of Bayeux in Normandy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1692261100ADA
- Title
- The Little Duke
- Author
- Charlotte M. Yonge
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Sheldon Press
- Date Published
- 1931
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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...