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The Making of Matthias
by Fletcher, J. S
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Prescott, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: John Lane: the Bodley Head. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1898. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. 141 pp. Illus. Blue boards. Gilt lettering on spine, worn. Gilt lettering and decoration on front board, bright. All edges gilt.Spine and corners bumped, lightly rubbed. Tissue protected frontis. Frontis and 4 illustrations coloured, probably by prev. owner.Small ink rub on ffep. Pages clean and tight.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Riverwash Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- FIC0316
- Title
- The Making of Matthias
- Author
- Fletcher, J. S
- Illustrator
- Welch, Lucy Kemp
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Lane: the Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1898
- Keywords
- Fiction, General
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Riverwash Books
Biblio member since 2004
Prescott, Ontario
About Riverwash Books
Purveyors of gently used, out of print, and rare books.While based in Canada, we ship from both Canada and the US.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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