Ward, Lock & Co Ltd., 1899. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1899. No Edition Remarks. 304 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis and illustrated plates throughout. Prize plate to front pastedown. Heavy tanning to pages with sticker residue to front endpaper and pastedown. Both hinges are cracked with exposed netting and cracks to guttering with exposed netting with tape to frontis and heavier tanning to text block edges. Binding is loose. Boards have visible rubbing and notable bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and visible tanning to spine.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1636548354MHA
Title: A Mother's Holiday
Author: John Strange Winter
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Ward, Lock & Co Ltd.
Date Published: 1899

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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

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...
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....
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...
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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,...