Old Mother Grunter and Other Tales [Nelson's Fireside Library]
by Marie Bayne
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No jacket
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Octavo/8vo, measures around 7 3/4" by 5 7/8" by 5/8". Paper on card boards, red cloth spine, with pictorial detail to front board and spine. A little marking and scuffing to binding but quite clean. Signs of wear, rubbing at edges, slightly bumped corners. Binding firm. Page edges browned, scuffed, a little foxed and marked. A little marking to endpapers, Sunday School prizegiving bookplate to front pastedown. The odd mark to page surfaces but otherwise clean, no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.
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- GN Books and Prints (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-592
- Title
- Old Mother Grunter and Other Tales [Nelson's Fireside Library]
- Author
- Marie Bayne
- Format/Binding
- Paper on card boards, cloth spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson & Sons, Ltd.
- Date Published
- Circa 1930
- Pages
- 96
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
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- Spine
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Bookplate
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- Marginalia
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