In Mischief Again.
by L C Silke:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Cassell & Company, no date [c. 1894]. Fourth edition (hardback). 8vo (19cm by 13cm), 224pp, 16pp adverts (dated 4/94). Frontispiece, text illustrations. Original decorated green cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. Binding a little cocked, spine a little sunned, bookplate to the front pastedown (dated 1895), endpapers foxed. Overall, this copy is in good condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cornell Books Limited (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31386
- Title
- In Mischief Again.
- Author
- L C Silke:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Cassell & Company, no date [c. 1894].
Terms of Sale
Cornell Books Limited
Returns accepted for any reason, provided that you notify us within 7 days of receipt. The customer is responsible for paying return shipping unless the book was not as described.
About the Seller
Cornell Books Limited
Biblio member since 2005
Tewkesbury
About Cornell Books Limited
We are a medium-sized bookshop located in a small country town in the west of England. The shop is open for business from 1030 to 1700 Monday to Saturday. The building is a fifteenth-century former public house. We are still awaiting the day when we find a book older than the shop itself!
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...