Robert Hale Limited, 1950. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1950. First Edition. 415 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographic plates, and fold-out map to rear of book. Pages are bright with light tanning and heavy foxing to free endpapers and text block edges. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper and paste-down, with occasional thumb-marking present throughout. Plates are bright and clear, with slight tanning to edges. Map is lightly tanned and clear, with a slight tear to edge. Boards have light shelf-wear with minor corner bumping and mild crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to spine. Boards are subtly bowed. Clipped jacket has moderate surface wear, with losses, tears and creasing to edges, corners and spine ends. Lightly tanned and foxed overall.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1690290970TMB
Title: Buckinghamshire (The County Books Series)
Author: Alison Uttley
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Robert Hale Limited
Date Published: 1950

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Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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...
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...
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....
Paste-down: The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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....
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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...