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ANGEL ESQUIRE
by EDGAR WALLACE
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
BRISTOL: J W ARROWSMITH Decorative olive cloth boards with gilt titles to spine, 190 x 130 mm approx. 300 pp + 4 page publisher's catalogue. Undated First Edition reprint. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. The copy offered is from the library of Cynthia and John Barnes, Hurstpierpoint. The late Sir John Barnes was British Ambassador to the Netherlands and son of Bishop Ernest Barnes the Mathematician and theologian with the former's book plate to front paste down and pencil signature of the latter to the top margin of the title page. Fair (Book - heavy shelf wear to cloth, fraying to head and tail, corner tips of boards exposed, 8 cm approx split to cloth at hinge to rear board and rear end paper cracked. The book is close to needing to being re-backed and is accordingly offered and priced as a binding copy but with a notable provenance). ,
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Details
- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 133281
- Title
- ANGEL ESQUIRE
- Author
- EDGAR WALLACE
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- J W ARROWSMITH
- Place of Publication
- BRISTOL
- Keywords
- Angel Esquire, Edgar Wallace, Fiction, Sir John Barnes, Bishop Ernest William Barnes, Binding Copy,
Terms of Sale
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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Re-backed
- Describes a book that has had the material covering the spine replaced or joints mended.
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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....
- 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,...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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