Sgeulaiche Nan Caol - Original Gaelic Readings Sketches Poems and Songs
by MacFadyen, John
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Scotland: Archibald Sinclair. Fair. 1902. Hardcover. READING COPY - A hardcover without dustwrapper in externally very tatty condition with faded green cloth-covered boards rubbed to all edges and bumped/rubbed to the corners, the backstrip is faded and separated at the front gutter on top and bottom ends, previous owner's name and small bookshop stamp on the front paste-down and hinge cracked before the frontispiece but the text-block remains securely bound, clean toned leaves free from annotation and foxing somewhat tanned to the text-block edges - still a most useful copy of an extremely scarce Gaelic title. Carefully packaged and posted within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland. .
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- Bookseller
- The Old Bookshelf
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15654
- Title
- Sgeulaiche Nan Caol - Original Gaelic Readings Sketches Poems and Songs
- Author
- MacFadyen, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- Archibald Sinclair
- Place of Publication
- Scotland
- Date Published
- 1902
- Keywords
- Scottish Gaelic Poetry, Scottish Gaelic Prose
- Bookseller catalogs
- Celtic/Gaelic;
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About the Seller
The Old Bookshelf
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Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute
About The Old Bookshelf
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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,...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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