W. & R. Chambers, 1909. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1909. No Edition Remarks. 394 pages. No dust jacket. Red pictorial cloth. Contains black and white illustrated frontispiece, with other plates throughout. Plate facing page 266 is almost detached. Pages are mildly tanned and foxed, but text remains clear. Plates are bright. Binding is firm. Visible marking to some pages throughout, but text is not affected. Boards have heavy shelf-wear, with visible corner bumping and noticeable scuffing to edges. Spine is severely sunned, with visible crushing and splitting to ends. Heavy rubbing and scuffing overall, with visible marking also.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1674816648IEV
Title: Betty Vivian: a Story of Haddo Court School
Author: L. T. Meade
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: W. & R. Chambers
Date Published: 1909

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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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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.,...
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
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...