Macmillan & Co, 1902. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1902. Reprinted, 10th thousand. 168 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Includes illustrations. Pages have deckled edges. Publisher's adverts to rear. Pages have some foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Front endpaper has been removed. Hinges are intensely cracked with exposed netting, and feeling very loose. Foxing more intense towards the start and end of the book. Pencil inscriptions to pre title page. Text block edges are very uneven. Boards have some edge wear, with slight bumping and fraying to corners, while spine ends are very crushed and frayed and torn. Slightly scratched, rubbed and marked overall. Slight water staining to front. Spine is noticeably sunned. Book has a heavy forward lean. Gilt is dulled and worn.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1655489991DPB
Title: The Garden That I Love
Author: Alfred Austin
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Macmillan & Co
Date Published: 1902

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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....
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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...
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....
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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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...
Cracked: In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...