A Shepherd's Life - Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs
by W. H. Hudson
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1933. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1933. Fifteenth Impression. 233 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Heavier tanning to free endpapers. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper and pastedown. Thumb-marking present. Grubby pages throughout. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges. White marks overall. Textblock is shaky. Book has a slight forward lean.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1653426130LEE
- Title
- A Shepherd's Life - Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs
- Author
- W. H. Hudson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Methuen & Co., Ltd.
- Date Published
- 1933
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- 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...
- Acceptable
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...