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The Hambledon Men, Being a New Edition of John Nyren's 'Young Cricketer's Tutor', together with a Collection of other Matter Drawn from Various Sources, all Bearing Upon the Great Batsmen and Bowlers before Round-Arm came in
by LUCAS, E.V. (1868-1938), and NYREN, John (1764-1837)
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- Condition
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- Seller
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Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Henry Frowde, 1907. FIRST THUS. Crown octavo, pp.xxviii; 252. With 22 illustrated plates including a frontispiece. In publisher's green gilt-decorated cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt. With rare original brown dust-jacket, priced at 2/6, with titles to spine and front cover. Black ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, dated 1908. Slight reading lean; loss to head of jacket spine and some chipping to edges. Very good indeed.
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- Bookseller
- Adrian Harrington Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48733
- Title
- The Hambledon Men, Being a New Edition of John Nyren's 'Young Cricketer's Tutor', together with a Collection of other Matter Drawn from Various Sources, all Bearing Upon the Great Batsmen and Bowlers before Round-Arm came in
- Author
- LUCAS, E.V. (1868-1938), and NYREN, John (1764-1837)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- London: Henry Frowde, 1907
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About the Seller
Adrian Harrington Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
About Adrian Harrington Rare Books
Adrian Harrington began trading in 1971, as part of Harrington Brothers in the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's fashionable King's Road. He moved to Kensington Church Street in 1997, and in 2014 Adrian relocated to the historic Hall's Bookshop in Royal Tunbridge Wells, occupying the first floor of this iconic building near The Pantiles area of the town. Hall's remains on the ground floor offering an exceptional range of quality used books.Adrian Harrington Rare Books deal in a wide selection of literature, modern first editions, leather bound library sets, children's and illustrated books, and fine and rare antiquarian and old books in all fields. We also offer a full and expert bookbinding and restoration service.Award-winning Ian Fleming Bibliographer Jon Gilbert curates our world-class stock of James Bond material, including first edition novels, film posters, original scripts and associated ephemera.We are always interested in buying quality books in our subject areas, from individual titles to complete collections.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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