I Will be a Sailor
by BEDFORD, H. LOUISA
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
London, London, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Religious Tract Society. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. Green cloth boards with attractive white snowdrop repeated design, gilt title to front and spine. 191 pp plus 16pp R.T.S.publishers' list at rear. No date but Sunday School presentation plate on 1st pastedown is dated 1907. B&w frontispiece of schoolboy cricketer. Spine edges scuffed externally; occasional slight foxing to some pages; rear page of adverts creased and has closed tear, small closed tear to rear endpaper. 1st hinge cracked to reveal webbing but tight good copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ripping Yarns
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 70005
- Title
- I Will be a Sailor
- Author
- BEDFORD, H. LOUISA
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Religious Tract Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- RIPPING YARNS
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Ripping Yarns
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About the Seller
Ripping Yarns
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London, London
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- 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,...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- 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...
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