Roundabout Papers
by W M Thackeray
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Wellington, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Smith Elder & Co, 1863. First edition thus. leather_bound. Very Good. Very clean text block - some foxing. Red leather three quarter leather and marbled paper to front and endpapers. Gilt lettering to spine with raised spines. 19 x 13 cm., black and white frontispiece. Front hinge broken Splits to top and bottom of spine. Has a General Assembly library NZ monogramme to front cover withdrawn plate inside on FEPs.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Last Word
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3768
- Title
- Roundabout Papers
- Author
- W M Thackeray
- Format/Binding
- Leather_bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Smith Elder & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1863
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Last Word
Biblio member since 2009
Wellington
About The Last Word
Dealer in good quality books. Especially Man Booker Prize winners - signed first editions, vintage childrens\\\' books and important New Zealand books such as those by Janet Frame. Prices are not set in stone - contact me if you want to haggle or submit a reasonable offer.
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- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- 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...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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....
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