Dearest Bess: The Life And Times Of Lady Elizabeth Foster
by Dorothy Margaret Stuart
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1955. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1955. First Edition. 266 pages. Dust jacket over blue cloth. Clean pages with light tanning throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Missing front endpaper. Pencil inscription to half title page. Mild droplet staining to text block edges. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Heavy tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Mild scuffing to front board. Mild water stains and droplets to surfaces. Book has forward lean. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Pencil to reverse of spine. Heavy tanning to spine. Mild rubbing and marking all over.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1715679767BWC
- Title
- Dearest Bess: The Life And Times Of Lady Elizabeth Foster
- Author
- Dorothy Margaret Stuart
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Methuen & Co. Ltd
- Date Published
- 1955
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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....
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- First Edition
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...