The Bab Ballads
by W. S. Gilbert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/N/a
- Seller
-
Lutterworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: MacMillan, 1926. First reprint in Macmillan's "Illustrated Pocket Classics" (1st 1904). Red covers with gilt on spine and upper cover, TEG, 190pp inc index plus 2pp adverts. Covers have light bumping and wear to extrems, slightly more to head and foot of spine and a couple of very light marks. Dusty page edges are lightly yellowed, as are prelims, otherwise internally very clean and tight. Ref:114896. Reprint. Cloth. VG/N/a. Illus. by W. S. Gilbert. 11x17.5cm.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Church Street Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004896
- Title
- The Bab Ballads
- Author
- W. S. Gilbert
- Illustrator
- W. S. Gilbert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- N/a
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- MacMillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1926
Terms of Sale
Church Street Books
payment with order. Refund if description inaccurate
About the Seller
Church Street Books
Biblio member since 2007
Lutterworth, Leicestershire
About Church Street Books
Second-hand book dealer (formerly in a Diss Shop), with a stock of around 2000 books from modern quality literature to reference, aviation, classics and antiquarian
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- Gilt
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- Reprint
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- Cloth
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- Tight
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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....