Wanderings In Wessex
by Edric Holmes
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Robert Scott, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 380 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations throughout. Pages are rough cut. Pages are lightly tanned with moderate foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper, with water staining through front pages. Minor dog-eared corners. Occasional thumb-marking present throughout, with a few small nicks and creases along text block edge. Boards have light shelf-wear with notable corner bumping and mild crushing to spine ends. Boards are subtly bowed. Unclipped jacket has moderate surface wear, with areas of loss, tears and creasing to edges, corners and spine ends. Heavily tanned and moderately foxed. Water staining to front flap.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1691150641ADA
- Title
- Wanderings In Wessex
- Author
- Edric Holmes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Robert Scott
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- 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....
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...