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St. Ronan's Well
by Scott, Walter (Scott)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Adam and Charles Black. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. (1904). Hardcover. Dust-jacket with 30mm missing at tail of spine. 80mm tear at head of dust-jacket spine. Smaller chips to head of dust-jacket spine and lower corner of front panel. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; Copyright date 1904. Title page imprint has date of 1894. [4], (ix)-xii, 448 pages + frontispiece + 8 plates. Vignette illustration on title page. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Blind-stamped "half-leather" pattern to cloth. Page dimensions: 188mm x 123mm. Volume XVII of "The Waverley Novels". This early 20th century dust-jacket has printing on the spine only, the front and rear panels and flaps are blank. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20636
- Title
- St. Ronan's Well
- Author
- Scott, Walter (Scott)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Publisher
- Adam and Charles Black
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1904)
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
Glossary
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- 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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