Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1909. New Impression. 496 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Contains black and white illustrated plates by G. P. Jacomb Hood. Pages are bright and clear with moderate tanning and foxing to free endpapers and text block edges. Cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Visible thumb-marking present throughout, with a few small nicks along text block edge. Creasing to page 167 and plate. Plates are bright and clear, with slight tanning and foxing to edges. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with slight bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Moderate tanning to spine and edges, with visible crushing to spine ends. Book has a noticeable forward lean. Water drops on rear board.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1688398665LEE
Title: Lysbeth: A Tale of the Dutch
Author: H. Rider Haggard
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co.
Date Published: 1909

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Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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.,...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
G: Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
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...
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...
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....
New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...