A SHEPHERD'S LIFE Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs
by Hudson, W.H
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
United Kingdom: METHUEN & CO LTD. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1910. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good 2nd Edition hardcover (stated) with no dustjacket. Lightly rubbed green cloth boards, gilt titles, still quite bright. Spine ends bumped and rubbed, with some rubbing to spine edges. Some light foxing to tail. Binding shaken but secure. Internally, owner's name inked neatly to front endpaper. Some foxing to prelims. Pages bright and occasionally foxed. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland. ; Color Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 361 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Bookshelf (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59528
- Title
- A SHEPHERD'S LIFE Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs
- Author
- Hudson, W.H
- Illustrator
- Bernard C Gotch
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- METHUEN & CO LTD
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1910
- Keywords
- England, Wiltshire, Animal Husbandry, Biography
Terms of Sale
The Old Bookshelf
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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:
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- 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....