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A year at the shore . With thirty-six coloured illustrations
by Gosse, Philip Henry
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
1st Edition. 8vo, ppxii + 330 plus 2 pages of adverts complete with 36 colour chromolithographic plates, most with tissue guards. Hardcover no dust jacket. Green cloth binding with gilt decoration in good to fair condition with splits down the top sides of the spine but binding still holding well and some bumping and rubbing to edges and tips and small marks. Inside all pages and illustrations with top edge gilt in very good clean condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nikki Green Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000383
- Title
- A year at the shore . With thirty-six coloured illustrations
- Author
- Gosse, Philip Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Strahan & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1870
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- natural history
Terms of Sale
Nikki Green Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Nikki Green Books
Biblio member since 2021
Glasgow, Glasgow
About Nikki Green Books
Nikki Green Books is based in Glasgow. We are third generation bookdealers, beginning with Eve Lowell who started The Dartmoor Bookshop in Ashburton and Sue Lowell Natural History Books, our parent company, based in London. We specialise in natural history along with a wide range of subjects
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- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- 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...
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