Country Life Ltd., 1934. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1934. First Edition. 187 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over turquoise cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Pages are lightly tanned with mild foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Mild cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Former owner's dedication to front free endpaper, with a few small nicks along text block edge. Occasional thumb-marking present throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with mil corner bumping and slight crushing to spine ends. Book has a pronounced backward lean. Unclipped jacket has heavy surface wear, with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing to spine ends, edges and corners. Lightly tanned and foxed.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1692798876ADA
Title: Told In The Watch Below
Author: John Scott Hughes
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Country Life Ltd.
Date Published: 1934

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First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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....
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....
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...