Alfred Tennyson
by His Grandson Charles Tennyson
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No jacket
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Alfred Tennyson by his Grandson Charles Tennyson Hardback, 1949, first edition, illustrated, published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London, 579 pages + xvi.
Measures around 8 1/2" by 5 3/4" by 1 5/8". No dust jacket. Grey cloth binding, faded gilt lettering (with blue label) and detail to spine. Some scuffing to binding but quite clean and colouring vivid. Signs of wear, rubbing at edges, slightly bumped corners. Some slackness to binding but contents reasonably firm. Page edges browned, scuffed and marked. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Page surfaces generally clean, no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.
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- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-443
- Title
- Alfred Tennyson
- Author
- His Grandson Charles Tennyson
- Format/Binding
- Hardback, cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co. Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1949
- Pages
- xvi + 579
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...