The Gentleman's Stable Manual: Or, A Treatise on the Construction of the Stable
by William Haycock
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/No jacket
- Seller
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Penrith, Cumbria, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Used; no dust jacket, green cloth boards, faded title label to spine, boards stained, spine sunned, corners bumped, slight tear to front joint, head and tail bands; pages foxed and age-tanned, ink inscription to dedication page, otherwise pages are free from highlighting and annotations, and the binding remains intact and tight.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Beckside Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19607
- Title
- The Gentleman's Stable Manual
- Author
- William Haycock
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Routledge, Warnes and Routledge
- Date Published
- 1859
- Pages
- xx + 528pp
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Horse stables, equine diseases, veterinary medicine, antiquarian
Terms of Sale
Beckside Books
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
Beckside Books
Biblio member since 2023
Penrith, Cumbria
About Beckside Books
Est'd 2007, Beckside Books is a 2nd hand and antiquarian bookshop tucked away in a central but quiet part of the historic town of Penrith, N.Cumbria, just 5 minutes from the Lake District national park.
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...