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Doxie Dent: A Clog-Shop Chronicle
by Ackworth, John [Frederick R. Smith]
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Carrollton, Georgia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Charles H. Kelly, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 5/8" X 5 1/4". 349pp, plus one leaf of ads. Dark blue cloth over bevelled boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Heavy edgewear and scattered rubbing to cloth, with corners bumped and rubbed to boards and light soiling. Top edge gilt. Lean to spine. Hinges a little tender. Attendance Prize bookplate to front pastedown from Chapel Street P.S.A. Brotherhood of Blackburn, dated 1902. Some erased marks to front free endpaper. Tissue guarded frontispiece with plates and vignettes throughout. A tale of working class Lancashire in that dialect by Yorkshireman Reverend Frederick R. Smith, writing under the pseudonym John Ackworth to keep his non-ecclesiastical, popular fiction writings on the down low.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Underground Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1935
- Title
- Doxie Dent: A Clog-Shop Chronicle
- Author
- Ackworth, John [Frederick R. Smith]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles H. Kelly
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1899
- Keywords
- Lancashire bookplate
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Underground Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Carrollton, Georgia
About Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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