A Servant of the Public
by Hope, Anthony
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Evesham, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
U.K.: Methuen, 1905. Blue bds with gilt bordered titles to spine and front. Spine sunned. Some light soiling to bds. Bump/rubbing to spine ends and corners. Foxing to endpapers and outer edge of text block. Crayon mark to ffep. Foxing/light soiling to some pages. B/W plate to frontis. 3 b/w plates to text. Interior Good ++.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good +/No Jacket. Illus. by Harold Percival. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Harry Righton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027678
- Title
- A Servant of the Public
- Author
- Hope, Anthony
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Methuen
- Place of Publication
- U.K.
- Date Published
- 1905
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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- 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...
- 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....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
- BDS
- Common term for the covers of a hardbound book. The term 'boards' refers to the thick cardboard under the paper or cloth...
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