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Alton Locke: Tailor and Poet. An Autobiography
by Charles Kingsley
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Oswestry, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Richard Edward King. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. Undated hardback, circa late 19th century, with no jacket. In overall good used condition - original red cloth bevel-edged boards, with gilt titles to spine and front, are slightly rubbed to edges. Binding overall firm - gutter strained at p42/43, no annotations or inscriptions; tanning to page-ends and prelims but text clean and clear throughout. Frontispiece portrait of author. Not an old library book. Photograph available.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hall of Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 122979
- Title
- Alton Locke: Tailor and Poet. An Autobiography
- Author
- Charles Kingsley
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Richard Edward King
- Keywords
- Bookseller catalogs
- Auto/Biography;
Terms of Sale
Hall of Books
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About the Seller
Hall of Books
Biblio member since 2020
Oswestry, Shropshire
About Hall of Books
We sell secondhand books and sheet music online and offer an eclectic (perhaps eccentric!) selection ranging from modern first edition hardbacks and quality paperbacks to the interesting, unusual and rare; the hard-to-find, collectable and out-of-print....and a lot more in between! We do our best to describe and photograph our books and music accurately, and to package them securely when they sell. We do not rely on stock images. If you need more information on a particular item, or if we have not yet uploaded a photograph for a particular listing, please contact us and we will respond by return.
Glossary
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- 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...