The Women at Oxford: a Fragment of History
by Brittain, Vera
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/Poor
- Seller
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Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1960. Ex Magdalene college with usual markings. Heavy staining to jacket and top edge of book and boards. Jacket also tanned, chipped, price clipped with tears to corners. Board edges chipped, closed edges foxed, shaken, gutters weak, owner inscription to ffep, else pp clean and bright.. First Edition. Cloth. Fair/Poor. 8vo. Ex-Library.
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- Seller
- Bookcase
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 59500
- Title
- The Women at Oxford: a Fragment of History
- Author
- Brittain, Vera
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1960
- Size
- 8vo
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- Price Clipped
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- 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...
- Cloth
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
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