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Castilian Days (1st ed ex lib)
by John Hay
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition (ex-library)/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Heinemann, 1903. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (Embossed Cloth). Good Condition (ex-library)/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Joseph Pennell. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Endpapers browned, text block clean. Deckled edges (rough cut), browned. Top edge gilt, faded. Text marked with Library stamps, but very discreetly, spine unmarked, in all other respects in very good condition throughout. Illustrator: Joseph Pennell. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 13954. .
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Details
- Seller
- Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
(AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 13954
- Title
- Castilian Days (1st ed ex lib)
- Author
- John Hay
- Illustrator
- Joseph Pennell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Embossed Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition (ex-library)
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Edition Unstated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Date Published
- 1903
- Keywords
- BZDB1 Antiquarian & Rare; Joseph Pennell John Hay Castilian Days (1st ed ex lib)
Terms of Sale
Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Mastercard, Visa, Amex, Diners Cards and PayPal accepted and preferred. Direct deposits, cheques by arrangement. All transactions in $AU. Returns accepted within 30 days of receipt if goods supplied are clearly not as advertised or described. Return shipping/freight refunded to customer if supplied products are flawed or have been clearly mis-described, otherwise at purchaser's expense. Returns to be in condition as originally shipped. Trade discounts and shipments under invoice available to regular customers, email for details.
About the Seller
Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Biblio member since 2004
Katoomba, New South Wales
About Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Mr Pickwick's occupies a large, 3-storey former Bank building in the heart of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia. We carry over 60,000 books in store, and cater to both the specialist collector trade as well as the general book trade in this region. Mr Pickwick's is one of the most comprehensive bookshops in Australia, and also operates an extensive Bookfinder service for its several thousand database clients.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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...
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