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"I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia", A Record of Love and of Childhood
by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Macmillan and Co. Ltd, 1941. Hardcover. Good. 1941. Reprinted. 390 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Ex-Libris sticker to front endpaper. Signed by the author to first title page. 2 Black and white illustrative plates and 1 photographic plate. Binding remains firm. Crinkling to gutters. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. There is bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Tanning to spine and edges causing discolouration. Gilt lettering is darkened. Book has a slight forward lean. Boards are bowed.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1631093595TMB
- Title
- "I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia", A Record of Love and of Childhood
- Author
- Mrs. Belloc Lowndes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co. Ltd
- Date Published
- 1941
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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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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