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The Next-Door House
by Mrs Molesworth
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
W. & R. Chambers Limited, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 226 pages. No dust jacket. Illustrated red cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis and illustrated plates throughout. Prize plate to front pastedown as well. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Major tanning to text block edges and both hinges are cracked with exposed netting. There is cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Boards have notable rubbing and visible bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and heavy sunning to spine as well. Book is also forward leaning and binding is loose.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1620992714EMB
- Title
- The Next-Door House
- Author
- Mrs Molesworth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- W. & R. Chambers Limited
Terms of Sale
World of Rare Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
World of Rare Books
Biblio member since 2009
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
About World of Rare Books
Wob sells rare and collectable books on behalf of charities. Our team of booksellers are happy to deal with any enquiries and aim to provide same-day dispatch for all orders.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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...
- 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,...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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