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Max the Sport
by Lilian Pyke
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
Item Price
NZ$52.60NZ$39.44
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Max the Sport by Lilian M. Pyke.
Hardback, 1916, first edition, illustrated, published by Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, London, 250 pages with 6-page publisher catalogue at rear.
Octavo/8vo, measures around 7 1/2" by 5 3/8" by 1 1/4". Beige cloth binding with pictorial detail to front board and spine. Marking and scuffing to binding. Signs of wear, rubbing at edges and on hinges. Bumped corners. Book has slight forward tilt. Some slackness to binding, though book contents reasonable firm. There may have been a tape repair to the front inner hinge, though if so it is quite neat. Page edges browned, scuffed, marked and heavily foxed. Some foxing to endpapers and foxing to many page surfaces throughout but no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.
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Details
- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-149
- Title
- Max the Sport
- Author
- Lilian Pyke
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ward, Lock & Co., Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1916
- Pages
- 250 + 6-page publisher catalogue at rear
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Children's, Sport, Antiquarian
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.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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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