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Fifty Miles Round Sulgrave.
by W. S. Pakenham-Walsh
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
No Publishing Remarks, 1929. Hardcover. Good. 1929. First Edition. 110 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are bright with light tanning and foxing to free endpapers and text block edges. Former owner's inscription to front free endpaper, with a few small nicks along text block edge. Slight cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Moderate tanning to spine. Boards are notably bowed.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1689590170IEV
- Title
- Fifty Miles Round Sulgrave.
- Author
- W. S. Pakenham-Walsh
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- No Publishing Remarks
- Date Published
- 1929
Terms of Sale
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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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