Around and About Old England
by Clara L Mateaux
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
cassell, ca 1878. Hardcover Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good- Hardcover with No DJ. Blue covers with red, black and gilt decoration. Picture of a castle on front cover. Gilt on textblock. Moderate soiling and shelfwear to covers, including rubbing and a tear on corner. Name and date of 1885 on FFEP. Spine ends bumped, rubbed, and starting to tear. Yellowing/foxing on inside cover and endpapers. Writing and light soiling on FFEP. Some pages have soiling and/or creasing. Pages yellowing, but tight in binding. Pictures available upon request. A locally owned, independent book shop since 1984.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Jane Addams Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 94368
- Title
- Around and About Old England
- Author
- Clara L Mateaux
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- cassell
- Date Published
- ca 1878
Terms of Sale
Jane Addams Book Shop
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About the Seller
Jane Addams Book Shop
Biblio member since 2010
Champaign, Illinois
About Jane Addams Book Shop
We are a locally owned, independent bookstore that has been in business for more than twenty-five years. With more than 70,000 titles in our shop we have a number of very well-stocked sections that span fifteen separate rooms on three floors.
Glossary
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.