Free Trade in Books : A Study of the London Book Trade since 1800
by Barnes, James J.:
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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Clunes, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1964. hard cover, dust jacket, dark blue cloth, ex-library copy, with discreet library stamps to top and bottom edges of text block, number stamp to verso of title page, previous owner's stamp and label to both sides of front endpaper, 198pp including index, spine of jacket is slightly darkened, otherwise all in very good clean and tight condition in very good dust jacket. No ISBN
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- Seller
- Book Fossicker
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 24506
- Title
- Free Trade in Books : A Study of the London Book Trade since 1800
- Author
- Barnes, James J.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1964
- Keywords
- history bookselling booktrade London England
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About the Seller
Book Fossicker
Biblio member since 2017
Clunes, Victoria
About Book Fossicker
After selling from a street address for the past 8 years, we are now based again as an on-line only business. Postal address is now PO Box 81 Clunes Victoria 3370. I am an experienced bookseller, having sold secondhand books for over 30 years in various ways and from various locations, and intend to keep providing the same standard of expertise and knowledge into the future. * PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF POSTAL ADDRESS
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
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