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Lest We Forget
by Joseph Hocking
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good-/No jacket
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
Item Price
NZ$25.28NZ$18.95
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About This Item
Lest We Forget by Joseph Hocking, illustrated by J. Barnard Davis
Hardback, 1901, first edition, published by Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, London, 384 pages.
Octavo/8vo, measures around 7 5/8" by 5 1/4" by 1 5/8". No dust jacket. Red cloth binding, gilt lettering to front board and spine. A little marking and scuffing to binding but quite clean and colouring still vivid. Signs of wear, rubbing at edges and a little on hinges. Corners a little bumped. Binding a little slack, some strain to inner hinges but book contents reasonably firm. Page edges slightly tanned, browned, scuffed and a bit marked. Foxing and other marking to endpapers but page surfaces generally clean, no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.
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Details
- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-607
- Title
- Lest We Forget
- Author
- Joseph Hocking
- Illustrator
- J. Barnard Davis
- Format/Binding
- Hardback, cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ward, Lock & Co., Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1901
- Pages
- 384
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
GN Books and Prints
Biblio member since 2022
Inverness, Highland
About GN Books and Prints
Seller based in the Scottish Highlands, dealing in a variety of books, including antiquarian, vintage and modern.
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- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- 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...
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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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