Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography
by Charles Kingsley
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1857. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1857. 369 pages. No dust jacket. Brown marbled boards half bound in brown leather. No Edition remarks within. Insert to front pastedown. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with moderate foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have been heavily rub worn with heavy shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a heavily frayed and spine ends are crushed, with some small splits and chips. Splitting to spine joints and ends. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1702547589MXP
- Title
- Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography
- Author
- Charles Kingsley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Bernhard Tauchnitz
- Date Published
- 1857
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- Edges
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- Shelf Wear
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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- Acceptable
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