Round About a Great Estate
by Richard Jefferies
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Smith Elder & Co, 1903 Book. Good. Blue Cloth Boards. New Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Series of reminiscences based on the author's relationship with the keeper of an English estate by the nature writer Richard Jefferies (1848-1887), first published in the Pall Mall Gazette. 204pp. Gilt and black design to top board, gilt lettering to spine and black endpapers. Some bumping and rubbing to spine and corners, top edges dusty and rest slightly age-toned and small patches covering inscriptions to endpapers, otherwise good copy..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Washburn Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015113
- Title
- Round About a Great Estate
- Author
- Richard Jefferies
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- New Edition
- Publisher
- Smith Elder & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1903
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Bookseller catalogs
- Rural Life;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Washburn Books
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
About Washburn Books
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...