The Life and Labours of George Washington Walker, of Hobart Town, Tasmania.
by Backhouse, James and Charles Tylor
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Bath, Maine, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: A. W. Bennett. Half leather covers, leather edge worn and reddened and cracked over spine, gold writing on spine, marbled paper covers slightly worn, hinges cracked, covers held on by strings. Collector bookplate lightly affixed, remnants of earlier paper glued to end papers, light browning to edges of end papers, only a few small fox spots, binding tight, pages lightly yellowed, internally very good. . Good. Hardcover. 1862.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 086384
- Title
- The Life and Labours of George Washington Walker, of Hobart Town, Tasmania.
- Author
- Backhouse, James and Charles Tylor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- A. W. Bennett
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1862
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY; BIOGRAPHICAL; TASMANIA; RELIGION; CHRISTIANITY; QUAKER; QUAKERISM
Terms of Sale
Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop
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About the Seller
Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop
Biblio member since 2013
Bath, Maine
About Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop
We got started selling online as Vintage Quaker Books in 2013 and opened a storefront under the name The Corner Bookshop in 2020. Vintage Quaker Books sells books by, for, and about Quakers (Religious Society of Friends) and a variety of other Christian books. The Corner Bookshop is a general used bookstore located in a cozy basement under/behind the main shopping street of Front Street in Bath, Maine.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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,...
- 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...
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