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Davy And The Goblin; Or, What Followed Reading " Alice's Adventures In Wonderland " , (Riverside Bookshelf)
by Charles E. Carryl
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1928. No Edition Remarks. 199 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and illustrated plate to front board. Colour illustrated plates. Black and white illustrations throughout. Minor thumb marking, foxing and noticeable tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light cracking and staining to gutters but binding remains firm; heavier to front hinge, exposing netting. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild fraying, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1714038023MHA
- Title
- Davy And The Goblin; Or, What Followed Reading " Alice's Adventures In Wonderland " , (Riverside Bookshelf)
- Author
- Charles E. Carryl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Date Published
- 1928
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- 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....
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