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Harry and Lucy
by Edgeworth, Maria
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Skipton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Edinburgh: E. and F. Livingstone. Hardback. 260pp. Educational tales. Black and white frontis. Green cloth is decorated in gilt and black but has heavily disfigure to the front with marks, surface damage and colour loss and it has probably been wet at some stage as the fore-edges of both boards are soft. Front hinge cracked and free endpaper is missing. Binding remains sound. Heavily finger marked and smudged to frontis and title page. scattered minor marks to page margins. A good candidate for rebinding. Reading copy only . Hardback.
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Details
- Bookseller
- C L Hawley
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22816
- Title
- Harry and Lucy
- Author
- Edgeworth, Maria
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- E. and F. Livingstone
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Keywords
- Maria Edgeworth,Education,Antiquarian,Women writers,Irish women , writers,Irish literature,Fiction,Children's literature,Antiquarian , Children's Books
Terms of Sale
C L Hawley
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About the Seller
C L Hawley
Biblio member since 2005
Skipton, North Yorkshire
About C L Hawley
We are a member of the PBFA and ibooknet -www.ibooknet.co.uk Our specialisms are academic books particularly literary criticism, literary biography, literary texts and literary and critical theory, history, plus some philosophy, psychology, politics and religion. We also stock local history books, mainly on Yorkshire. We also stock children's literature. We have a small general stock in the wider academic arts and humanities.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not 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,...
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