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Shirley: A Tale
by Currer Bell (Charlotte Bronte)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Smith Elder & Co, 1860. Hardcover. Very Good. A New Edition. 8vo, pp534. Hardcover no dust jacket. Contemporary binding of half brown calf over marbled boards with gilt titles and 4 raised bands to spine in very god condition with a little rubbing to edges. Inside starting to crack pages 2/3 but binding firm and tight, all pages in very good clean condition. A very good copy of an early edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nikki Green Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000802
- Title
- Shirley: A Tale
- Author
- Currer Bell (Charlotte Bronte)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Smith Elder & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1860
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- literature / mums
Terms of Sale
Nikki Green Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Nikki Green Books
Biblio member since 2021
Glasgow, Glasgow
About Nikki Green Books
Nikki Green Books is based in Glasgow. We are third generation bookdealers, beginning with Eve Lowell who started The Dartmoor Bookshop in Ashburton and Sue Lowell Natural History Books, our parent company, based in London. We specialise in natural history along with a wide range of subjects
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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...
- 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....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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