Punch Vol XLIX
by N/a
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good +/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Evesham, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London, 1865. Brown bds with dulling gilt title to spine. blindstamped decoration to bds and gilt illustration to centre of front board. Bump/fraying to spine ends and corners. Some areas of cloth loss to spine. Spine sunned. Some soiling to bds. Bindings cracked to endpaper hinges. Endpapers grubby. Some foxing to outer edge of text block and a little foxing to text. Pages tanned. B/W illus. Text Good ++.. Hard Cover. Good +/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Harry Righton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 037536
- Title
- Punch Vol XLIX
- Author
- N/a
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1865
Terms of Sale
Harry Righton
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About the Seller
Harry Righton
Biblio member since 2003
Evesham, Worcestershire
About Harry Righton
Diana Righton has been an established family business for the past thirty years (James Place Books for the first 18 years). We have a large stock in the region of 100,000 books, of which only 9,000 are on the net. Please feel free to ask if you have any wants.
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- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- BDS
- Common term for the covers of a hardbound book. The term 'boards' refers to the thick cardboard under the paper or cloth...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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