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Social Problems
by GEORGE, Henry
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Without Dust Wrapper
- Seller
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GALSTON, East Ayrshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, England: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1884. Leather Binding. Good/Without Dust Wrapper. 12mo - 6.75 to 7.75" tall. Good fine binding - three quarter leather with 5 raised bands down the spine with gilt title and blind decoration. Front board has a gilt roundel of the Queens College, Belfast emblem. Marbled end pages with marbling on the head, tail and fore edge of the text block. some wear to the extremities, small piece of leather missing from the leather at the top corner of the front board, award plate on front paste down, light foxing to the first and last few pages otherwise contents clean, bright and tight.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Loudoun Books Ltd.
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012808
- Title
- Social Problems
- Author
- GEORGE, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Leather Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Without Dust Wrapper
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1884
- Pages
- 406
- Size
- 12mo - 6.75 to 7.75" tall
- Weight
- 1.47 lbs
- Keywords
- 19th Century
Terms of Sale
Loudoun Books Ltd.
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives damaged or not as described. UK Standard delivery is Free. The Shipping Matrix is compiled for a package weighing 1kg. Additional postage will be sought for packages over 1kg for UK Expedited, UK Express of Overseas delivery.
About the Seller
Loudoun Books Ltd.
Biblio member since 2022
GALSTON, East Ayrshire
About Loudoun Books Ltd.
Loudoun Books Ltd. was formed on 15 February 2011, although we had been selling at book fairs and through online marketplaces, for approximately 10 years prior to that. Based in Ayrshire, Scotland we specialise Scottish interest, rare, collectable, First Edition and out of print books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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....
- Fine Binding
- An elaborate and decorative binding, example including a leather-bound book with gilt edges, raised blind stamps, raised ribs,...
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