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Handley Cross
by Surtees, R. S
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Ibstock, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chatto & Windus. Good with no dust jacket. 1901. New edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in faded red cloth with gilt titles and blindstamped decoration, sunned at the spine, cloth rubbed at edges, endpapers tanned, page fore edges lightly foxed, no inscriptions. vi + 280 pages + 32 pages of publisher's adverts, illustrations in the text by John Leech .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aucott & Thomas
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60819
- Title
- Handley Cross
- Author
- Surtees, R. S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- New edition
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Date Published
- 1901
- Keywords
- Fox Hunting, Limited edition, Hunting fiction, Field Sports
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / 19th Century;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Aucott & Thomas
Biblio member since 2003
Ibstock, Leicestershire
About Aucott & Thomas
We have been selling books by post since 1995. Apart from our specialist interests, we carry a constantly changing stock of around 5000 fiction and non-fiction books covering a wide range of subjects. We can supply lists of stock in any particular area of interest on request. http://www.aucott.com/
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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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