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Australia (Peeps At Many Lands)
by Frank Fox
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Adam and Charles Black, 1911. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1911. No Edition Remarks. 88 pages. No dust jacket. Red pictorial boards with gilt and black lettering. Contains colour illustrated plates by Percy F. S. Spence. Pages are lightly tanned with moderate foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Former owner's inscription to front free endpaper, with a few small nicks along text block edge. Mild cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Visible thumb-marking present throughout. Plates are bright and clear, with slight tanning and foxing to edges. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with mild bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Heavy tanning to spine and edges, with visible crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight backward lean and bow.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1690443255TMB
- Title
- Australia (Peeps At Many Lands)
- Author
- Frank Fox
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Adam and Charles Black
- Date Published
- 1911
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...