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The Waverley Novels: Waverley, Old Mortality, Monastery, Pirate, Count Robert of Paris
by Sir Walter Scott
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Adam & Charles Black, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Stories each paginated separately, sometimes starting from other numbers. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Foxing more noticeable towards the start and end of the book. Hinges are cracked with exposed netting; feeling shaky overall. Liquid stains to pastedowns and text block edges. Boards have heavy edge wear, with intense bumping and fraying to corners, while spine ends are very crushed and frayed. Scratched, rubbed and marked overall. Book has a moderate forward lean. Boards are slightly bowed. Gilt is bright.
Synopsis
The Waverley Novels are a long series of novels by Sir Walter Scott, a Scottish writer and historian. For nearly a century, they were among the most popular and widely read novels in all of Europe. Scott did not publicly acknowledge authorship until 1827, causing the series to take its name from Waverley, the first novel of the series published in 1814. The later books bore the words "by the author of Waverley" on their title pages. The Tales of my Landlord sub-series was not advertised as "by the author of Waverley" and as a result not always included as part of the Waverley Novels series.
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- World of Rare Books
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- 1655719817MHP
- Title
- The Waverley Novels: Waverley, Old Mortality, Monastery, Pirate, Count Robert of Paris
- Author
- Sir Walter Scott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Adam & Charles Black
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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....
- Acceptable
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- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
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