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A First Book in English Literature
by Henry S. Pancoast, Percy Van Dyke Shelly
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Henry Holt and Company, 1912. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1912. No Edition Remarks. 497 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Contains colour illustrated plates, with black and white in-text illustrations. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding and some pages slightly loose. Previous owner's inscription to rear pastedown and endpaper. Black pen marking to front pastedown and endpaper. Light water staining to some pages. Light pencil marking to a few pages. Binding is shaky. Boards have heavy edge wear with bumping to corners and rub wear all over. Soft crushing to spine ends. Book is forward leaning. Moderate water staining to boards. Scuffing and light marking overall. Minor black marking to boards.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1636966128BIL
- Title
- A First Book in English Literature
- Author
- Henry S. Pancoast, Percy Van Dyke Shelly
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Date Published
- 1912
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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....
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...