The Story of Eros and Psyche (Retold From Apuleius) Together with Some Early Verses
by Carpenter, Edward
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
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About This Item
George Allen & Unwin, Ltd.. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1923. Hardcover. A very good 1923 Allen & Unwin hardcover in a good scarce unclipped dustwrapper. The book is in clean tan boards with sharp corners, bumped spine ends, tiny contemporary bookseller plate on the front pastedown, toned occasionally lightly foxed pages very foxed/tanned to the rough-cut text-block edges. The dustwrapper is very aged and lightly foxed, creased to the edges with tiny cips to the spine ends/tips supplied in a new removable archival sleeve. A nice copy. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland. .
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- Bookseller
- The Old Bookshelf
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14909
- Title
- The Story of Eros and Psyche (Retold From Apuleius) Together with Some Early Verses
- Author
- Carpenter, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- Publisher
- George Allen & Unwin, Ltd.
- Date Published
- 1923
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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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
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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"...
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