Tom Brown's School-Days - By An Old Boy
by Thomas Hughes
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Item Price
A$19.38A$15.51
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About This Item
London: Henry Frowde / Hodder & Stoughton Book. Illus. by H M Brock. Good. Decorated Green Cloth Boards. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Undated edition in the Herbert Strang Library series. 262pp with colour illustrations. All edges gilt, decorated endpapers, gilt design to top board and spine with oval colour drawing glued inside border on top board. Gift inscription ('Good luck at Giggleswick', ie a gift for a boy going off to Giggleswick School) dated 1918. Left hinge pulling, slight bumping to spine and corners and light foxing to edges, otherwise good copy..
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- Bookseller
- Washburn Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014465
- Title
- Tom Brown's School-Days - By An Old Boy
- Author
- Thomas Hughes
- Illustrator
- H M Brock
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Henry Frowde / Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Collectable Books;
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Washburn Books
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About the Seller
Washburn Books
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
About Washburn Books
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- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
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- 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....