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Talks to Little Folks
by John C. Carlile
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No jacket
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
Item Price
NZ$25.28NZ$18.95
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About This Item
Talks to Little Folks by John C. Carlile
Hardback, 1903, first edition, published by James Clarke & Co., London, 125 pages + and 32-page publisher catalogue at rear.
Measures around 7 1/2" by 5 1/4". Pale green cloth binding, black lettering to front board and spine. Considerable discolouration and marking to binding. Scuffing, tears at top of spine, signs of shelf-wear, bumped and torn corners. Book has slight forward tilt. Split rear inner hinge, textblock detached from rear board, though still attached to front board, where front inner hinge is intact. Page edges very browned, heavily foxed and scuffed. Small tear to front free endpaper. Foxing throughout page surfaces, previous owner names written on front pastedown but no underlining, marginalia, etc. to pages. See pictures for further information.
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Details
- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-612
- Title
- Talks to Little Folks
- Author
- John C. Carlile
- Format/Binding
- Hardback, cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- James Clarke & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1903
- Pages
- 125+
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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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:
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- 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...
- 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....
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