A Short History Of English Literature
by Gilbert Phelps
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Folio Society, 1962. Hardcover. Good. 1962. No edition remarks. 159 pages. No dust jacket, Folio edition with slipcase. Quarter bound blue leather with blue cloth to boards. Red slipcase. Clean pages are bright with light foxing. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Notable foxing to text block edges. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and heavy foxing to boards. Mild tanning and scuffing to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Slipcase has moderate edge wear with markings to panels and scuffing to edges. Notable tanning to edges.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1713345880ADA
- Title
- A Short History Of English Literature
- Author
- Gilbert Phelps
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Folio Society
- Date Published
- 1962
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- Jacket
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- Edges
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- Spine
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- Folio
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- Cloth
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- 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....