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This England: A Book of Shires and Counties
by Shears, W S
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, UK: Hutchinson, 1948. 4th Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Way, Barnard (maps). xxii, 17-704pp. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Bumped spine ends. Text block edges starting to tan and fox. Free endpapers tanned. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket significant loss especially to rear, has shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. Detailed and comprehensive work with drawings by Hanslip Fletcher and photographs by J Dixon-Scott. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012101
- Title
- This England: A Book of Shires and Counties
- Author
- Shears, W S
- Illustrator
- Way, Barnard (maps)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 4th Edition
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1948
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- England, Shires, Counties
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About the Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
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