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Double Harness
by Anthony Hope
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Hutchinson and Co, 1904. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1904. No Edition Stated. 390 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. Publisher's adverts to rear. Pages are rather marked with pronounced tanning and foxing, plus thumbing. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper with bookseller's embossed stamp. Minor warping and bubbling to pastedowns. Gutters slightly cracked. A few dog-eared corners. Text block edges are uneven. Boards have heavy edge wear, with bumping and fraying to corners, while spine ends are crushed and frayed. Joints worn too. Scratched, rubbed and marked overall with faint water staining. Spine is noticeably sunned. Gilt is bright.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1624565175DPB
- Title
- Double Harness
- Author
- Anthony Hope
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hutchinson and Co
- Date Published
- 1904
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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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