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A Miscellany Presented to John Macdonald Mackay, LL. D. July 1914
by (John Macdonald) Mackay
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Petersfield, Hampshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Liverpool at the University Press / Constable and Company Ltd, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Gilt tooled red cloth, illustrated with some folding black & white plates. Spine discoloured with a small tear to head. Text block edges and endpapers discoloured but contents are clean and sound, Size: Octavo . Category: History; .
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- Bookseller
- The Petersfield Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 92563
- Title
- A Miscellany Presented to John Macdonald Mackay, LL. D. July 1914
- Author
- (John Macdonald) Mackay
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Liverpool at the University Press / Constable and Company Ltd
- Date Published
- 1914
- Keywords
- BZDB16 History; (John Macdonald) Mackay A Miscellany Presented to John Macdonald Mackay, LL. D. July 1914
Terms of Sale
The Petersfield Bookshop
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
The Petersfield Bookshop
Biblio member since 2023
Petersfield, Hampshire
About The Petersfield Bookshop
"The Petersfield Bookshop" is a traditional bookshop and specialises in buying and selling Antiquarian and second-hand books, but also sells antique maps and prints and. Inside the shop there is a display of antique dolls from Ann Westwood's private collection. A special feature of the premises is a canopied forecourt where second-hand books can be bought 24 hours a day, 365 days a year!
Our opening hours are 10:00 to 17:00, Wednesday to Saturday. (Other times available by appointment)
There is nearby "Pay & Display" parking available and we are short walk from Petrsfield Station (On the London to Portsmouth route).
We are members of: ABA, ILAB & PBFA
Our opening hours are 10:00 to 17:00, Wednesday to Saturday. (Other times available by appointment)
There is nearby "Pay & Display" parking available and we are short walk from Petrsfield Station (On the London to Portsmouth route).
We are members of: ABA, ILAB & PBFA
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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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