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Old Kensington Palace and Other Papers
by DOBSON, Austin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Chatto & Windus, 1910. Hardback. First edition, 1910. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Fair minus condition; boards edgeworn, scratched and marked with bumps to corners and spine, heavy tanning and foxing to fore deckle edges, foxing to endpapers, owners bookplate of ffep. No dust jacket. Published: Chatto & Windus, 1910
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roy Turner Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10943
- Title
- Old Kensington Palace and Other Papers
- Author
- DOBSON, Austin
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Date Published
- 1910
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Roy Turner Books
Biblio member since 2017
Stockport, Cheshire
About Roy Turner Books
With more than thirty years' experience of collecting literary first editions, I specialise in the areas of both contemporary and earlier fiction, poetry, drama and children's books with particular emphases on signed modern firsts, authors' first and early published books, American and Irish literature and literary prize-winning writers.
Glossary
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
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