Feadora's Failure
by Jackson, Lucie E
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Ward, Lock & Co. Fair with no dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner's signature. Prize label to front pastedown. Rubbing to ends of spine and to corners of boards. Some spotting throughout. Spotting to page edges. Slight spine lean. Some mould stains to endpapers. ; 315 pages + frontis + plates + (16) pages advertisements. No date. Blue cloth boards with gilt illustration. Page dimensions: 190mm x 123mm. "A month had passed. Littlefield House had, to all outward seeming, resumed its pristine cheerfulness. Indoors, however, the inmates looked anything but cheerful. The gloom of that funeral day still seemed to hang over everybody." - the opening sentences. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7727
- Title
- Feadora's Failure
- Author
- Jackson, Lucie E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Ward, Lock & Co
- 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
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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