The Heroes or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children
by Charles Kingsley
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
The Medici Society, 1928. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1928. Reprinted. 166 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Colour illustrated frontispiece. Illustrated by W. Russell Flint. Contains colour illustrated plates. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Light creasing to guard tissue pages to plates. Minor dog-eared corners. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Crushing to spine ends with mild splits and fraying to cloth. Notable sunning to spine and edges. Book is forward leaning.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1659730325LEE
- Title
- The Heroes or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children
- Author
- Charles Kingsley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Medici Society
- Date Published
- 1928
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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....
- 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
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...