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School Yarns for Boys
by Various
- Used
- fair
- Condition
- Fair/No jacket
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
Item Price
NZ$25.24NZ$18.92
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About This Item
School Yarns for Boys
Hardback/annual format, year unstated but circa 1929-30, illustrated (including four colour plates), published by Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd., London, 96 pages.
Measures around 9 1/2" by 7 1/4" by 1". Paper on card boards, pictorial front board, paper on cloth spine. A little discolouration to spine. Scuffing and some marking to boards, a little discolouration. Signs of shelf-wear to board and spine edges with a little chipping at board edges, bumped and torn corners. Binding reasonably firm. Page edges a bit browned, foxed and scuffed. Some foxing throughout page surfaces. Sunday school prizegiving bookplate to front free endpaper, dated from 1930. Some pencil marking to verso of title page and recto of contents but otherwise page page surfaces clean, no further underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.
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Details
- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-633
- Title
- School Yarns for Boys
- Author
- Various
- Format/Binding
- Hardback, annual format
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson & Sons, Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- Circa 1929-30
- Pages
- 96
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
GN Books and Prints
Biblio member since 2022
Inverness, Highland
About GN Books and Prints
Seller based in the Scottish Highlands, dealing in a variety of books, including antiquarian, vintage and modern.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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