The Chaplain of the Fleet
by Besant, Walter & James Rice
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1910. Hardcover. Purple cloth covered boards with gilt titles show some edge wear, corners lightly bumped, spine faded, a tear head and tail of spine. light foxing. Ads at end of book badly browned, previous owner's name on front pastedown ; A tight solid book. ; 447 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10588
- Title
- The Chaplain of the Fleet
- Author
- Besant, Walter & James Rice
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1910
- Keywords
- British Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Historical;
Terms of Sale
Ainsworth Books
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About the Seller
Ainsworth Books
Biblio member since 2003
Chilliwack, British Columbia
About Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...