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Custom and Myth
by Andrew Lang
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good. A pleasant enough reading copy. Heavily faded at the spine. Heavily bruised at the head, tail and corners of the boards
- Seller
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Peasedown St. John, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Longmans, Green & Co., 1898. Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Good. A pleasant enough reading copy. Heavily faded at the spine. Heavily bruised at the head, tail and corners of the boards. Leans. Edges of the text block lightly tanned. Text complete, clean and tight but a little age-tanned with a stain to the bottom margisn of the last half of the pages, not affecting the text.. Hardback. Physically 7½” x 5” (0.8 kg); (xxv)pp; Index; New Edition. [First Published: 1844] 32pp. Publishers advertisements to the rear. || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #167179|| Condition:
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Details
- Bookseller
- BookLovers of Bath
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 167179
- Title
- Custom and Myth
- Author
- Andrew Lang
- Format/Binding
- Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good. A pleasant enough reading copy. Heavily faded at the spine. Heavily bruised at the head, tail and corners of the boards
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green & Co.
- Date Published
- 1898
- Keywords
- anthropology apollo bull-roarer cronus cupid customs divining early essays family fetichism folklore general history hottentot infinite introduction journals kalevala letters mandragora manners method mouse mythology myths other prose psyche religion sava
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystical & Arcane Religion;
Terms of Sale
BookLovers of Bath
As a distance seller based in England, I am required to abide by the terms of the "Distance Selling Act", details of which are freely available. This ensures that you have the highest degree of protection when purchasing from me. Alongside that, I prefer to treat my customers in the manner that I expect to be treated; my guarantee is complete satisfaction or your money back - I aim to please, not just for the one book sale but to ensure that should you require another book, another time that my name against it means it gets your consideration.
About the Seller
BookLovers of Bath
Biblio member since 2006
Peasedown St. John, Somerset
About BookLovers of Bath
BookLovers of Bath is set in the pastoral idyll of Peasedown St. John in Somerset (God's Own Country) in the south west of England. My wife and I owned the village Post Office until the modern world caught up with us in 2014. At that point I converted the premises to a small book shop, Fact or Fable, with a stock of around 4,000 titles in stock. I've been selling books worldwide since 1997 and rather hope to get the hang of it shortly…
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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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- New
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