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The Unknown Land and Other Parables from Nature
by Mrs Alfred Gatty
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Samuel Bagster & Sons, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Stated. 158 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth. From the Bagster's Sixpenny series. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Foxing more noticeable towards the start and end of the book. Prize plate to front pastedown. Text block edges are heavily foxed with minor scratches. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Faint water stains to rear. Spine is noticeably sunned, as are parts of front board. Boards a little rubbed and marked overall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1624908146DPB
- Title
- The Unknown Land and Other Parables from Nature
- Author
- Mrs Alfred Gatty
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Samuel Bagster & Sons
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Biblio member since 2009
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
About World of Rare Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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