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The Fairy Tradition In Britain
by SPENCE,LEWIS:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Rider and Company, 1948 1st edition. Hardback, approx 9.5 x 6 inches. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (DW Edges rubbed and chipped, loss to bottom edge on rear end ends of spine, tape repairs to spine and flap hinges. NOT price clipped.) Crack to cloth on rear hinge, and partial crack to bottom front corner. Small chips to top end of spine. No penned inscriptions, some neatly pencilled notes to rear endpaper. Repair to rear hinge between endpapers. Some minor tanning to pages, one minor mark to outer page edge, else pages clean and tight. Else a very good clean and tight copy. Please note: This volume has come from a smokers library so does suffer slightly from this. This volume particularly being quite scented. 374pp. Illustrated with 12 B&W plates.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 92818
- Title
- The Fairy Tradition In Britain
- Author
- SPENCE,LEWIS:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Rider and Company, 1948 1st edition
- Keywords
- Occult / Theosopy / etc. Folklore Magic Witchcraft Supernatural Ghosts Myths & Legends Religion Rare / Scarce
Terms of Sale
The Antique Map & Bookshop
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
The Antique Map & Bookshop
Biblio member since 2016
Dorchester, Dorset
About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Price Clipped
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- Dustwrapper
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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