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The Tale of Balen
by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, UK: Chatto & Windus, 1896. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 132pp, [2]pp of publisher's ads, 32pp of publisher's ads. Dark blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine, bottom and fore text block edges untrimmed, top edge gilt; bevelled board edges. 12mo. Moderate wear and tanning towards edges of boards. Heavily sun-faded spine, sticker residue around heel. Heavily rubbed extremities with cloth worn through at spine ends. Text block edges heavily tanned. Heavily tanned endpapers, front free endpaper missing. Lending library markings on front pastedown and rear free endpaper. Inscription on first blank page. Light foxing through prelims, last few pages and around page margins. Otherwise, internally neat and tight.
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- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023078
- Title
- The Tale of Balen
- Author
- Swinburne, Algernon Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1896
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Poetry
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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....
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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