Roundabout Papers: And Little Travels and Road-side Sketches 1887 [Hardcover]
by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Smith, Elder and Co, 1887. Hardcover. Good. 1887. Pocket Edition. 367 pages. No dust jacket. Marble paper covered boards with red cloth spine. Pages are mildly tanned & foxed throughout. Heavier to endpapers & paste downs. Text is clear. Front hinge is cracked with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with bumping to corners. Slight tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1656512080LEE
- Title
- Roundabout Papers: And Little Travels and Road-side Sketches 1887 [Hardcover]
- Author
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Smith, Elder and Co
- Date Published
- 1887
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- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...