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A Country-side Chronicle: Leaves From the Diary of an Idle Year in Four Seasons
by S.L. Bensusan
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
William Heinemann Ltd, 1907. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1907. No Edition Remarks. 265 pages. No dust jacket. Decorated green cloth. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Occasional thumb-marking present. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Faint brown marking to a few pages, text is not affected. Light scuffing and brown marking to text-block edges. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Crushing to spine ends with small splits and fraying to cloth. Scuffing and light marking overall. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Some white staining to surfaces, with areas of scuffed loss.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1627660582EWY
- Title
- A Country-side Chronicle: Leaves From the Diary of an Idle Year in Four Seasons
- Author
- S.L. Bensusan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- William Heinemann Ltd
- Date Published
- 1907
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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....
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