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WORLD'S CHILDREN (BLACK'S 20s. SERIES)
by DOROTHY MENPES, MORTIMER MENPES
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK / A & C Black, 1904 Blue cloth boards with orange and green decorative blocked design and gilt titles, 230 x 175 mm approx. Top edge gilt, x + 246 pp Frontis colour plate with captioned guard + 99 other such by Mortimer Menpes all as called for. First Published in June 1903 the copy offered is of the Feb. 1904 first reprint at the Menpes Press. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG no d/j (Book moderate general shelf wear and soiling. End papers browned, 1 cm split to front end paper at tail, binding sound, no previous owner name or insc. paper of book block lightly but evenly tanned. No other notable defects).
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Details
- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 130260
- Title
- WORLD'S CHILDREN (BLACK'S 20s. SERIES)
- Author
- DOROTHY MENPES, MORTIMER MENPES
- Illustrator
- MORTIMER MENPES
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK / A & C Black
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1904
- Keywords
- World's Children, Mortimer Menpes Illustrated, Dorothy Menpes, A & C Black, Blacks Colour Books, Adam and Charles Black 1904
Terms of Sale
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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