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The Immortal Fountain
by R. Edleston
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
James Speirs, 1879. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1879. No Edition Remarks. 63 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Prize plate to front pastedown and free endpaper. Light foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges and free endpapers. Hinges are moderately cracked causing boards to be loose. Binding otherwise remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with moderate staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has similar tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright but slightly chipped.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1695378593BAB
- Title
- The Immortal Fountain
- Author
- R. Edleston
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- James Speirs
- Date Published
- 1879
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- 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...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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