In His Own Country: A Selection from the Writings
by A. G. Street
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1950. First Edition. 361 pages. Illustrative jacket over green cloth. Contains black and white plates throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Front free endpaper is removed. Brown staining to pages throughout. Visible creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Small marks to boards. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creasing. Loss to spine ends. Visible tanning to spine. Some rubbing to surfaces. Scuffing to edges.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1682610707DPB
- Title
- In His Own Country: A Selection from the Writings
- Author
- A. G. Street
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Eyre & Spottiswoode
- Date Published
- 1950
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.