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The Heart of Wessex
by Sidney Heath
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Blackie & Son, 1910. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1910. No Edition Remarks. 64 pages. No dust jacket. Illustrated brown cloth with a colour illustrated frontis and plates throughout. Heavy foxing and visible tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen inscriptions to front endpaper and heavy foxing and tanning to text block edges. Front hinge is cracked with exposed netting and there is cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Binding is also loose. Boards have heavy edge wear and rubbing with moderate bumping to corners. Major crushing to spine ends with areas of loss to spine and splitting to joints.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1627059772GEO
- Title
- The Heart of Wessex
- Author
- Sidney Heath
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Blackie & Son
- Date Published
- 1910
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....