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The Bee & Other Essays
by Goldsmith, Oliver
- Used
- Hardcover
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About This Item
London & Philadelphia: J. M. Dent & Coy. & Lippincott Coy.. 1893. 12mo [approx 12.7x18.7cm]. Very Good condition. Boards are mildly age-toned at edges. Some offset to endpapers and uncut edges are age-toned. Bookplate to front pastedown and bookseller blindstamp to front free endpaper. Gilt to top edge. Three black and white engravings with tissue guards intact by - two are by Herbert Railton . viii, 253 pages. . Reprint. Hardback.
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- Bookseller
- Adelaide Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB322405
- Title
- The Bee & Other Essays
- Author
- Goldsmith, Oliver
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used -
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J. M. Dent & Coy. & Lippincott Coy.
- Place of Publication
- London & Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1893
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
Adelaide Booksellers
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About the Seller
Adelaide Booksellers
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Clarence Gardens, South Australia
About Adelaide Booksellers
Antiquarian and Secondhand Bookseller. Member ANZAAB.Founded in 1979, Adelaide Booksellers is one of Adelaide's oldest and most respected secondhand and antiquarian booksellers. Members of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers [ANZAAB]. Has Adelaide's most comprehensive selection of book on military history. Also a very good range of Australiana books, Childrens's Books, Art and History books.Something for every budget. Now primarily an online/telephone seller but open to the public by arrangement.
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Blindstamp
- A blindstamp is a stamped impression, usually an image, logo, words, or design on the cover or spine of a book, without color or...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
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