W & R Chambers, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Stated. 324 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Four colour illustrated plates by Harold C. Earnshaw. Pages with noticeable foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to hinges and gutters. Binding loose, however pages remain attached. Some page corners folded and with mild tears. Larger tears to top edge of pages 277-280. Text is unaffected. Plates remain bright and clean with minor marks. Occasional thumb-markings. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Minor water staining to fore edge of front board. Boards are slightly bowed. Book has slight forward lean.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1713346123DPB
Title: Girls Of The Hamlet Club
Author: Elsie Jeanette Oxenham
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: W & R Chambers

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
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...
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Fore Edge: The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
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....