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Dobsons Drie Dobbes : A Story of 16th Century Durham
by Horsman, E. A. (editor)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good (+)
- Seller
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Hyde, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Oxford University Press, 1955. Name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, dusty top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dusty dust jacket not price clipped with very minor marking, sunned spine and rubbing to edges and corners. 110pp. Originally written in the 16th century as another of the book of jokes so popular with Elizabethan readers, this 'rogue novel' tells us accurately of the local setting at the time and its characters, according to Durham documents actually lived. Fold out map of Durham (ante 1611) and fold-out plan of Durham Cathedral both in excellent condition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good (+). 8.75 x 5.75 inches.
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- Bookseller
- Godley Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022331
- Title
- Dobsons Drie Dobbes : A Story of 16th Century Durham
- Author
- Horsman, E. A. (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good (+)
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- 16th Century, Durham, Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Fiction;
- Size
- 8.75 x 5.75 inches
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
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