The Shuttle of Fate.
by MASTERS, Caroline
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Tamworth, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1896. Third edition. Octavo, light brown cloth covers with terrific design showing a boy climbing a rope, pp. viii, 299; illustrations by Lancelot Speed. Pencil name on half title, light foxing early and late, page edges moderately foxed, spine gently leaned, else a very good or better example, with bright unworn covers. Very attractive book..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11387
- Title
- The Shuttle of Fate.
- Author
- MASTERS, Caroline
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1896. Third edition.
- Keywords
- VICEDW; 11387; NCLA-Z; LANCELOT SPEED.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Victorian & Edwardian Children's books;
Terms of Sale
Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB
Payment with order only, except for institutions which may request billing. We accept payment by Visa, MasterCard, Canadian or US cheque. Canadian customers will be billed 5% GST on books and 13% HST on all other items (photographs; autograph letters, maps, prints, ephemera et al).
About the Seller
Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Tamworth, Ontario
About Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB
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Glossary
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- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...