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Rose o' the River
by Douglas, Wiggin Kate
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Archibald Constable & Company, 1905. 1st Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Wright, George. First edition, first printing. xiv, 224pp plus publisher's catalogue at rear, with tissue-guarded plate frontispiece and nine further plate illustrations, all by George Wright. In red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and decoration (boards are strong, clean and square, a little rounded at spine ends and corners and slightly sunned on spine. A little spotting on text block edges and endpapers, else internally neat, clean and bright. Firmly bound.
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- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006964
- Title
- Rose o' the River
- Author
- Douglas, Wiggin Kate
- Illustrator
- Wright, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- Archibald Constable & Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1905
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fiction
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About the Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent
About BookAddiction
Based in the leafy hamlet of Chartham Hatch, just a few miles from the historic Cathedral city of Canterbury, BookAddiction offers beautiful, illustrated and collectible used books and a selection of unique works on paper.BookAddiction was established in 1999 (originally trading as The Virtual Bookshelf). We are members of the book-selling co-operation, Ibooknet, which extends the highest professional and ethical standards, and are in the process of joining the Provincial Booksellers' Fairs Association (PBFA).Follow our blog, on books and book collecting at www.bookaddictionuk.wordpress.uk or visit our website at www.bookaddiction.co.uk.We welcome inquiries about our books and endeavour to respond promptly. Please ask away, Offers always welcome.
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- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- 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....
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