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EDINBURGH
by SITWELL, SACHEVERELL & BAMFORD, FRANCIS
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/VG
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: FABER & FABER, 1938 Lilac cloth with light blue title block and gilt titles to spine. 320pp, Frontis + 11 other plates as called for. History of the "Modern Athens" studying her growth from the time of the Roman invasion through the centuries of war and internecine strife. 1st Edition copy with dust jacket. Good / VG (Book- lliquid stains to cloth ingressing up to 50 cms from bottom edge, end papers foxed with a little foxing to edges of book block the paper of which is also a little tanned. Ink gift insc. to ffep. Binding sound and square with no other defects. The book has been downgraded from VG because of the liquide stains to cloth which are obviously not visible under the jacket. The later is price clippedwith a little rubbing and taning but is remarkably complete and clean for a pre war book.grey line down spine is a ribbon illustration not a tear or loss. now in clear easily Removable proprietary protective cover . Please see our image of the actual book offered for sale.
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9996
- Title
- EDINBURGH
- Author
- SITWELL, SACHEVERELL & BAMFORD, FRANCIS
- Format/Binding
- Hard Back
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- FABER & FABER
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1938
- Size
- 225x150mm Approx.
- Keywords
- Edinburgh, Holyrood, John Knox, James VI, The Modern Athens, Booksonlinebrighton Scotland Scottish History Sacheverell Sitwell
Terms of Sale
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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