George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. Fair with no dust jacket. 1931. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in faded orange cloth with gilt titles and decoration, spine sunned at the spine, cloth rubbed and rippled, top page edges gilt, page fore edges foxed, some water staining at page edges especially at edge of plates, remains of name on front endpaper. xvi + 520 pages, 12 colour illustrations on plates by Wildrake, Heath and Jellicoe, introduction by Siegfried Sassoon, unnumbered limited edition of 1000 of the English edition .

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Bookseller: Aucott & Thomas (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 60813
Title: Hillingdon Hall or The Cockney Squire
Author: Surtees, R. S
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fair with no dust jacket
Edition: Limited Edition
Publisher: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.
Date Published: 1931
Keywords: Fox Hunting, Limited edition, Hunting fiction, Field Sports
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction / 19th Century;

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G: Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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....
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...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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...