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An Editor's Retrospect. Fifty Years Of Newspaper Work
by Charles A. Cooper
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Macmillan & Co. London, 1896. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1896. No Edition Remarks. 425 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Ex-library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Rough-cut pages. Light thumb marking and tanning to pages. Annotations, underlining and marginalia in pencil throughout; text remains unaffected. Hinges are moderately cracked causing boards to be loose. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with mild splitting and crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.
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Details
- Seller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1674161304LEE
- Title
- An Editor's Retrospect. Fifty Years Of Newspaper Work
- Author
- Charles A. Cooper
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co. London
- Date Published
- 1896
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- 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....
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...
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