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The Post Office and its story
by Bennett, Edward
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Ibstock, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd.. Fair with no dust jacket. 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in red cloth with gilt titles, cloth spotted & has minor rubbing at spine ends, page edges foxed, rusty staple mark, 'file copy not to be taken away' stamped on page fore edges, front endpaper and half title pages, annotations on illustrations list. 356 pages + 16 publisher's adverts, photos on plates, index .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aucott & Thomas
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55623
- Title
- The Post Office and its story
- Author
- Bennett, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd.
- Date Published
- 1912
- Keywords
- Royal Mail, Wireless stations, Telecommunications
- Bookseller catalogs
- Business studies;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Aucott & Thomas
Biblio member since 2003
Ibstock, Leicestershire
About Aucott & Thomas
We have been selling books by post since 1995. Apart from our specialist interests, we carry a constantly changing stock of around 5000 fiction and non-fiction books covering a wide range of subjects. We can supply lists of stock in any particular area of interest on request. http://www.aucott.com/
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
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