The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren
by Iona and Peter Opie
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Oxford Clarendon Press, 1961. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1961. Third Impression. 417 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over navy cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are bright and clear, with light tanning and foxing to text block edges. Former owner's inscription to front free endpaper, with a few small nicks and rub marks along text block edge. Boards have light shelf-wear with minor corner bumping and slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light surface wear, with small tears and creasing to spine ends, edges and corners. Moderate sunning to spine, with a water stain to front flap corner.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1692024533MXP
- Title
- The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren
- Author
- Iona and Peter Opie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Oxford Clarendon Press
- Date Published
- 1961
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....