The Earl of Beaconsfield [Benjamin Disraeli] - his life and work.
by Lewis Apjohn:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: J G Murdoch & co, no date [c. 1890]. No edition stated (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 13cm), 296pp. Portrait frontispiece. Original blue cloth, gilt titling and design to the spine, all edges gilt. Binding somewhat rubbed and dusty, preliminary pages foxed. Overall, this copy is in good minus condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cornell Books Limited (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 42351
- Title
- The Earl of Beaconsfield [Benjamin Disraeli] - his life and work.
- Author
- Lewis Apjohn:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: J G Murdoch & co, no date [c. 1890].
Terms of Sale
Cornell Books Limited
Returns accepted for any reason, provided that you notify us within 7 days of receipt. The customer is responsible for paying return shipping unless the book was not as described.
About the Seller
Cornell Books Limited
Biblio member since 2005
Tewkesbury
About Cornell Books Limited
We are a medium-sized bookshop located in a small country town in the west of England. The shop is open for business from 1030 to 1700 Monday to Saturday. The building is a fifteenth-century former public house. We are still awaiting the day when we find a book older than the shop itself!
Glossary
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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...
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...