The Dictionary Companion
by C O Sylvester Mawson
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Garden City Publishing Company, 1932. Hardcover. Good. 1932. No Edition Stated. 479 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper. A few dog-eared corners. Text block edges slightly marked. Boards have some edge wear, with slight bumping and fraying to corners, while spine ends are moderately crushed and rubbed. Slightly scratched, rubbed and marked overall. Gilt is bright.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1664348344BPF
- Title
- The Dictionary Companion
- Author
- C O Sylvester Mawson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Garden City Publishing Company
- Date Published
- 1932
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....