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Mother Hubbard
by Richards, W. E
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG++/VG/GD+
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1946 (1945)* Publisher: John Gifford Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Olive grey cloth, gilt title to spine. Corners slightly bumped but no rubs, minimal shelf wear to head and tail of spine. Rear board has slight crease. VG* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing Mother Hubbard against a ?pit? landscape, yellow and white text to face and white titles to spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of 8/6 net. Some slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. GD+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to top & fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 292 pp. text. ii pp., blank pages at rear.* Description: "Mother Hubbard lived in a Company house in the rows of a colliery village. Here under the shadow of the Pit tip, she bore five sons. Life in the Rows was raw and rude, lusty or stiff with virtue, a contrast of harsh lights and sombre shadows. Against this background her sons stumbled and fought their way to maturity. This is the story of the fight of Mother Hubbard made for the bodies of her five sons; of moses, saved from the gallows; of Enoch, bowling at Bramall Lane; of John, the coming miners' leader; of Dave, whose nimble wits coined money; of her adopted daughter, Hilda, who took a short cut from the Rows to the Music Hall; of Abby, the artist who went his own secret way.* A NEAR FINE text reprint copy with some minor faults in a GD+ dust jacket.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2189
- Title
- Mother Hubbard
- Author
- Richards, W. E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG/GD+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint 1946
- Publisher
- The Book Club
- Place of Publication
- London UK 294
- Date Published
- 1946-01-01
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
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Glossary
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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