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MY FRIEND SMITH
by Baines-Reed., Talbot
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/GD++/ND
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus?* Date of Publication: 1900?* Publisher: The Religious Text Society.* Binding and cover condition: Light green cloth decorated with a scene of a gentleman talking with a boot-black. Gilt & black titles to spine & face. Boards faded aparticularly at spine. No bumps, some rubs, considerable shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. GD (for age)* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Owners name to ffep dated 1905. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with only light reading wear, no marks to text, some marks and age darkening all edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: A number of b/w illustrations to frontis & within text throughout.* Pages: 479 pp. text. xviii pp., advertisements & blank pages at rear.* Description: This title has a long school-life section, but then it goes on to describe in rather frightening detail the life of a young clerk in London, trying to survive on a miserable pittance. He is living in a cheap lodging-house, and trying to keep up socially with his contemporaries. He is loyal to his friends, and in particular to his friend Smith, whom he had met at school, which had been a school for troublesome and backward boys.* A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st/1st thus. with some cover age & faults reducing it to GD, without dust jacket.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2223
- Title
- MY FRIEND SMITH
- Author
- Baines-Reed., Talbot
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/GD++/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Thus ?
- Publisher
- The Religious Tract Society
- Place of Publication
- London UK 497
- Date Published
- 1900-01-01
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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