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An Eden In England Or, The Trials Of Jessie Mildmay
by A. L. O. E. [Charlotte Maria Tucker]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Gall And Inglis. Very Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Rear free endpaper missing. Hinges broken. Frontis and some sections of plates coloured in with crayon. Rubbing to corners of boards with 1/4" loss of cloth. Rubbing to ends of spine. Series of 1/8" tears along tail of spine. ; 288 pages + frontis + plates. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and colour illustration. No date [c. 1892]. Page dimensions: 184mm x 120mm. "The Castle Series." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9625
- Title
- An Eden In England Or, The Trials Of Jessie Mildmay
- Author
- A. L. O. E. [Charlotte Maria Tucker]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Gall And Inglis
- Place of Publication
- London
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
Glossary
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- 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...
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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