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Farnford; or, School Life Twenty Years Ago
by By the Author of 'The Merchant's Clerk'" [possibly Samuel Warren]
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No jacket
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
Item Price
NZ$33.63NZ$25.21
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About This Item
Farnford; or, School Life Twenty Years Ago, "By the Author of 'The Merchant's Clerk'" [possibly Samuel Warren] Hardback, undated but circa 1895 (inscription from 1898 to front free endpaper), illustrated, published by Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, London, 224 pages.
Octavo/8vo, measures around 7 1/4" by 5" by 1/2". No dust jacket. Orange-brown cloth binding, with black lettering, orange and black pictorial detail and design to board and spine, gilt lettering to spine. Some marking and scuffing to binding but quite clean and colouring still vivid. Signs of wear, some rubbing at edges. Binding reasonably firm. Page edges gilt, some scuffing and marking but gilt still vivid. Some marking to endpapers and throughout, inscription to front free endpaper, but no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.
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- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-383
- Title
- Farnford; or, School Life Twenty Years Ago
- Author
- By the Author of 'The Merchant's Clerk'" [possibly Samuel Warren]
- Format/Binding
- Hardback, cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ward, Lock & Co., Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- Circa 1895
- Pages
- 224
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
GN Books and Prints
Biblio member since 2022
Inverness, Highland
About GN Books and Prints
Seller based in the Scottish Highlands, dealing in a variety of books, including antiquarian, vintage and modern.
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- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
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