The Would-Be-Goods
by NESBIT, E
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
T. Fisher Unwin, 1111. Hardback. Sixth impression, undated (1st 1901). Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial cover. Good condition; minor marking and edgewear, rubbed, sunned to spine, small bumps to corners and spine, browning to endpapers, owners stamp on FEP, foxing to fore edge and some pages. No dust jacket. Published: T. Fisher Unwin
Synopsis
Children are like jam: all very well in the proper place, but you can't stand them all over the shop - eh, what?'
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roy Turner Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10654
- Title
- The Would-Be-Goods
- Author
- NESBIT, E
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- T. Fisher Unwin
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About the Seller
Roy Turner Books
Biblio member since 2017
Stockport, Cheshire
About Roy Turner Books
With more than thirty years' experience of collecting literary first editions, I specialise in the areas of both contemporary and earlier fiction, poetry, drama and children's books with particular emphases on signed modern firsts, authors' first and early published books, American and Irish literature and literary prize-winning writers.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....