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The Conflict of Duties, And Other Essays
by Alice Gardner
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
T. Fisher Unwin, 1903. Hardcover. Good. 1903. No Edition Remarks. 307 pages. No dust jacket. Dark grey cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Pages are rough cut. Pages are lightly tanned with mild foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper and paste-down, with a few small nicks along text block edge. Former owner's inscription to half tile page. Occasional thumb-marking present throughout. Slight cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with slight corner bumping and mild crushing to spine ends. Moderate tanning to spine. Book has a noticeable forward lean.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1690200550ADA
- Title
- The Conflict of Duties, And Other Essays
- Author
- Alice Gardner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- T. Fisher Unwin
- Date Published
- 1903
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....