Fifty 'Bab' Ballads: Much Sound and Little Sense
by W.S. Gilbert
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
George Routledge, 1887. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1887. No edition remarks. 317 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth to spine and paper to boards. Pocket sized. Contains ex-libris plate. Pages are moderately tanned with visible foxing. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Boards have heavy shelf-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Notable cracking to boards. Scuffing to edges and surfaces. Mild water stains and droplets to front on cloth. Heavy tanning to spine. Book has forward lean.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1693929645LEE
- Title
- Fifty 'Bab' Ballads: Much Sound and Little Sense
- Author
- W.S. Gilbert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George Routledge
- Date Published
- 1887
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...