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East London
by Walter Besant
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chatto & Windus, 1901. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1901. No Edition Remarks. 366 pages. No dust jacket. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Contains black and white illustrated plates by Phil May, Joseph Pennell and L. Raven Hill. Pages are rough cut. Pages are lightly tanned and heavily foxed, with a few nicks and creases along text block edge. Moderate cracking to hinges and gutters, with exposed netting. Binding remains mostly firm. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Occasional thumb-marking present throughout. Water staining through upper corners. Plates are lightly tanned and moderately foxed. Slight tearing to rear pages. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with notable bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Book has a pronounced forward lean. Moderate tanning to spine and edges, with visible crushing to spine ends. Slight bubbling to spine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1691417532DPB
- Title
- East London
- Author
- Walter Besant
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Date Published
- 1901
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About the Seller
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
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