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Agatha Webb
by GREEN, Anna Katharine (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs); THIEDE, Adolf (illus.)
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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London, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Ward, Lock & Co, 1900. First Edition. Cloth. Fair. 370, [14] p. 20 cm. 4 b&w plates by Thiede. Green cloth hardcover with black and gold impressing. Small tears in spine ends, corners bumped, white mark on rear cover, stain on lower edge of text block, colour wearing off. Rear hinge cracking internally. Darkened title page and frontispiece tissue guard. Some soiling and small tears within, and two larger tears to advertising pages at rear.
14 p. of publisher's ads at rear.
14 p. of publisher's ads at rear.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Attic Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 116346
- Title
- Agatha Webb
- Author
- GREEN, Anna Katharine (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs); THIEDE, Adolf (illus.)
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ward, Lock & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1900
- Keywords
- Crime, Mystery
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime and mystery;
Terms of Sale
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Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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