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A Midsummer-Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare / Edward Dowden (Intro.) / Arthur Rackham (Illust.)
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1929. 9th Impression . Fair. 7.25 x 9.75 inches (18.5 x 25 cm). Blue buckram binding with gilt illustration to front board. Marking to boards. Spine faded and rubbed. Slight wear to ends of spine and corners of boards. Heavy foxing to page edges and all pages. Plate mounts are heavily browned, binding strained in a few places and a little loose. Complete with all 40 tipped-in colour plates, several of them have creasing to the lower corner. . Overall condition is Fair. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: Europe £14.65; USA £27.60; Oceania £30.50; Rest of World £25.15. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 7.25 x 9.75 inches (18.5 x 25 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 134
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tarrington Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1218E214
- Title
- A Midsummer-Night's Dream
- Author
- William Shakespeare / Edward Dowden (Intro.) / Arthur Rackham (Illust.)
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 9th Impression
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Heinemann Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1929
- Size
- 7.25 x 9.75 inches (18.5 x 25 cm
- Keywords
- , Childrens
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books; Illustrated;
Terms of Sale
Tarrington Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Tarrington Books
Biblio member since 2015
Tarrington, Herefordshire
About Tarrington Books
A family run bookshop located in the heart of rural Herefordshire. Large selection of children's literature, crime fiction, military, history, travel, vintage paperbacks, quality antiquarian volumes & fine bindings. We offer free UK postage on all items and pride ourselves on our safe packaging and rapid dispatch of orders. Browsers welcome by appointment.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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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