The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches
by Bret Harte
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1887. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1887. No Edition Remarks. 317 pages. No dust jacket. Brown patterned paper covered boards with lettering. Hinges are moderately cracked with exposed netting. Moderate crinkling and cracking to paper at gutter. Pages are heavily tanned and foxed with visible markings throughout. Binding throughout is slightly loose but pages remain attached. Rough cut pages. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Slight crushing and fraying to spine ends and corners. Moderate scuffing to edges and corners. Lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to boards. Book has a moderate forward lean.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1639735791IEV
- Title
- The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches
- Author
- Bret Harte
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George Routledge & Sons Ltd
- Date Published
- 1887
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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,...