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52 Stories of Courage and Endeavour for Girls,
by Miles, Alfred H edited
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Poor
- Seller
-
Great Milton , United Kingdom
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About This Item
Glorious book, 1901, 462 pages. No dust jacket with damaged spine. Please refer to photos. Foxing to pages. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Dated from the preface. B&W illustrations throughout. Front endpaper to frontispiece detached but present. Clean pages other than frontispiece . Foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Both hinges cracked. Some gutter cracking.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tio Limone
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AJG15
- Title
- 52 Stories of Courage and Endeavour for Girls,
- Author
- Miles, Alfred H edited
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hutchinson & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1901
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- A H M, Miles, Alfred H Miles, Alfred Miles, Fifty-Two, 52, 52 Stories, 52 Stories of Courage and Endeavour for Girls,
Terms of Sale
Tio Limone
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
Tio Limone
Biblio member since 2021
Great Milton
About Tio Limone
I love books and reading them however I have way too many so letting go of some here. Some are from student days, both under graduate and post graduate so relate to Latin American Studies. Some belonged to the parents some to children now grown up and gone. A mixture!
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Edges
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- Gilt
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- Cracked
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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....
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
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