Country Sketches for City Dwellers.
by Mrs Willingham Rawnsley:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1908. First edition (hardback). 8vo (23cm by 16cm), x, 166pp. 16 colour plates by the author. Original green cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine, top edge gilt. There is some foxing of the preliminary pages, and some chafing to the leading edge of several pages; overall, this book is in good to very good condition. Part of the 7/6 series of A&C Black colour books. Inman 140.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cornell Books Limited (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 65446
- Title
- Country Sketches for City Dwellers.
- Author
- Mrs Willingham Rawnsley:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Adam and Charles Black, 1908.
Terms of Sale
Cornell Books Limited
Returns accepted for any reason, provided that you notify us within 7 days of receipt. The customer is responsible for paying return shipping unless the book was not as described.
About the Seller
Cornell Books Limited
Biblio member since 2005
Tewkesbury
About Cornell Books Limited
We are a medium-sized bookshop located in a small country town in the west of England. The shop is open for business from 1030 to 1700 Monday to Saturday. The building is a fifteenth-century former public house. We are still awaiting the day when we find a book older than the shop itself!
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- 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...
- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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....