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Napoleon
by T. P. O'Connor
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chapman and Hall, 1896. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1896. No Edition Stated. 416 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth with gilt lettering. Top corner of title page cut out neatly. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Pages are rough cut. Both hinges partly cracked. Pencil marking to pages on occasion. Moderate wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with splitting and chipping to spine ends. Heavy sunning to spine and board edges, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1684480348IEV
- Title
- Napoleon
- Author
- T. P. O'Connor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Date Published
- 1896
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
World of Rare Books
Biblio member since 2009
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
About World of Rare Books
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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...
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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,...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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....
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
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