Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Together with Selections from the Autobiography
by Thomas De Quincey
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Cresset Press, 1950. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1950. No Edition Remarks. 340 pages. Grey dust jacket over blue cloth. Dust jacket is in plastic cover. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Occasional thumb-marking present. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light sunning to spine and edges. Clipped jacket has light edge wear with chips, tears and creasing. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Minor brown mark to spine. Jacket is in plastic cover.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1643315013BDT
- Title
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Together with Selections from the Autobiography
- Author
- Thomas De Quincey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Cresset Press
- Date Published
- 1950
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- 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...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...