London: Jarrolds. Good with no dust jacket. 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Some insect damage to advertisement leaves and rear endpaper. Some splitting to gutter at rear hinge. Rear hinge weak. No signatures. Moderate rubbing and creasing to cloth covers. 1/2" chip to cloth on fore-edge of rear board. ; 291, [1] pages + colour frontis + 4 b&w plates + [4] pages advertisements. Illustrated red cloth covers. Dimensions: 7 1/2" by 4 7/8". ; 12mo .

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Bookseller: Renaissance Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 4520
Title: The Best of All Schools
Author: Talbot, Ethel
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good with no dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Jarrolds
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1924

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We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.

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Leaves: Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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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...
Gutter: The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.