Gondola Days
by F Hopkinson-Smith
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Petworth, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1897. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo.. First edition thus - first published the same year by subscription as Venice of To-day. Bound in red cloth with decorative gilt and black front board and spine. Spine is faded. Edges are bumped. Pages are age tanned but clean. Pages are rough cut and poorly in places. Binding is tight. 8vo. A very attractive copy with black and white illustrations by the author. 1897
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Details
- Bookseller
- Reader’s Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5527
- Title
- Gondola Days
- Author
- F Hopkinson-Smith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1897
- Size
- 8vo.
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About the Seller
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Petworth, West Sussex
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Market town general antiquarian book shop specialising in literature, travel and history.
Glossary
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- 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....
- Age Tanned
- Age tanning, or browning, occurs over time on the pages of books. This process can show up on just the edges of pages, when...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...