Margaret Catchpole: a Suffolk Girl
by The Rev. Richard Cobbold
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- G-/N/a
- Seller
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Lutterworth, Leicestershire
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$21.65
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About This Item
London: Ward, Lock & Co Red covers with gilt title and decoration on spine and upper board, bevelled edges, 354pp with several full-page colour illustrations. ND but looks 1890s. Covers have modest wear to most extrems, moreso to head and foot of spine, which is faded. Several light marks on covers. Page edges foxed and dusty and edges and margins heavily yellowed, as are prelims. pp113-4 detached with a corner missing; pp95-6 torn but all present. Ref:104510. Author's Copyright Edition. Buckram. G-/N/a. 12.5x19cm.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Church Street Books
(GB)
- Bookseller Inventory #
- 004510
- Title
- Margaret Catchpole: a Suffolk Girl
- Author
- The Rev. Richard Cobbold
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - G-
- Jacket condition
- N/a
- Edition
- Author's Copyright Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ward, Lock & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
Terms of Sale
Church Street Books
payment with order. Refund if description inaccurate
About the Seller
Church Street Books
Biblio.com member since: 2007
Lutterworth, Leicestershire
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About Church Street Books
Second-hand book dealer (formerly in a Diss Shop), with a stock of around 2000 books from modern quality literature to reference, aviation, classics and 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...[more]
- foxed
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- spine
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- nd
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- buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...[more]
- edges
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