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Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises
by William Cushing
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1886. No Edition Stated. 314 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Notable tanning to pages throughout. Front hinge cracked. Visible soiling to endpapers and page edges. Ex-library with usual stamps, inserts and markings. Moderate wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with small splits (approx. 3cm) to spine ends. Notable tanning to spine, with scuffing and marking to boards. Library plate remnants on front board.
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Details
- Seller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1706002131IEV
- Title
- Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises
- Author
- William Cushing
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington
- Date Published
- 1886
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
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