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Mary Stuart's People: Life in Scotland in the Time of Mary Queen of Scots
by Sanderson, Margaret H.B
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good Minus
- ISBN 10
- 090182481X
- ISBN 13
- 9780901824813
- Seller
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Sorn, East Ayrshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Minus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾. N/a. 190pp. 1987. First edition. 8vo. sized. A very good, clean, tight copy in very good minus jacket. Original publisher's brown boards - gilt embossed to the spine. No inscriptions but a neat former owner's bookplate is pasted to the front paste-down. Some light spotting to the upper fore-edge. A bump to the tail of the spine. The jacket has not been price-clipped - it has some fading to the spine - - the titles remain very legible and it has some spotting to the verso of the jacket. A very good, clean, tight copy in a very good minus jacket
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- Bookseller
- Trumpington Fine Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 237590
- Title
- Mary Stuart's People: Life in Scotland in the Time of Mary Queen of Scots
- Author
- Sanderson, Margaret H.B
- Illustrator
- N/a
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Minus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 090182481X
- ISBN 13
- 9780901824813
- Publisher
- Mercat Press
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1987
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾"
- X weight
- 0 oz
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- Gilt
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- Bookplate
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Paste-down
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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