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Realities of Irish Life
by Trench, W. Steuart
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Longmans, Green, and Co.. Fair with No dust jacket as issued. [c1870]. Hardcover. Ex-library, Public Library, Otago, New Zealand. Rules of the "Waiwera Library" pasted to front endpaper. Rebound late 19th century in half calf library binding. Boards very rubbed, some loss of cloth along edges of boards. 1/4" chips to leather at tips of corners of boards. Spine rubbed and faded. Some old dampstains and wrinkles to fore margins of leaves throughout. Dampstains and staining to rear endpaper. ; Stated "New Edition" on title page. viii, 416 pages. Half-calf binding. Page dimensions: 172 x 107mm. Pages (403)-416 of this edition have "Extracts from Opinions of the Press", dating from December 1868 through to March 1869. .
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Details
- Seller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 20790
- Title
- Realities of Irish Life
- Author
- Trench, W. Steuart
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with No dust jacket as issued
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green, and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- [c1870]
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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....
- Title Page
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- Edges
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Jacket
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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