Charles O'Malley. The Irish Dragoon.
by Charles Lever
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Oswestry, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Ward, Lock & Co. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. Undated edition hardback, circa late 19th Century (preface dated 1872), with no jacket. 6 x 8.5 inches, 670 pages and heavy. In overall very good condition, light blue boards, with fine illustration to front, are quarter bound in green buckram, with bright gilt titles and illustrations - a little worn to corners and spine head and tail. Binding overall tight and square but gutter strained between pages iv and v with mesh showing and first 5 pages a little loose but still firmly attached; no annotations or inscriptions - owners name in ink (very neat) to ffep, faint tanning to page-ends but text and fantastic illustrations (by Phiz) are clean and clear throughout.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hall of Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 111070
- Title
- Charles O'Malley. The Irish Dragoon.
- Author
- Charles Lever
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ward, Lock & Co
- Keywords
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / General;
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About the Seller
Hall of Books
Biblio member since 2020
Oswestry, Shropshire
About Hall of Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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