Mary Russell Mitford: Correspondence with Charles Boner & John Ruskin
by Mitford, Mary Russell; Lee, Elizabeth (Editor)
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
T. Fisher Unwin, 1914. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. 1914 T. Fisher Unwin. First Edition. "Presentation Copy" embossed on title page. Hardcover has blue cloth-covered boards with gold stamped spine and cover lettering. Black and white frontispiece. Seven additional black and white plates. Top edges gilt. Deckle fore and bottom edges. Hinges NOT cracked. Binding cracked at page 17, still intact. Binding a bit loose in places, but good overall and still functional. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, with some fraying at tips and spine ends. Spine ends worn and frayed. Covers lightly rubbed with a few small stains. Address label on front endpaper. Brief previous owner notations in ink on front and rear free endpapers. 7 pages in the text have markings, mostly consisting of small red checkmarks in the margins. However, one page has a word underlined in red and another has several lines highlighted in yellow. In addition, 2 entries in the index have the same small red checkmarks. 324 pages. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
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- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2911
- Title
- Mary Russell Mitford: Correspondence with Charles Boner & John Ruskin
- Author
- Mitford, Mary Russell; Lee, Elizabeth (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- T. Fisher Unwin
- Date Published
- 1914
- Keywords
- Letters,Biography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Letters;
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- Cracked
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- Title Page
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Edges
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