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Tess Of D'urbervilles: A Pure Woman
by Hardy, Thomas
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Waynesboro, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
MacMillan & Co, 1926. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Fair with heavy wear to red cloth with damp stain to corner that bleeds through to first few pages of text block. Prev owner's name in small font on ffep otherwise unmarked, heavily toned. 1/2" Tear to top of spine, leang to right and corners bent, small indentions to covers. Top edge gilt and still fairly tight
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Details
- Bookseller
- Stone Soup Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59738
- Title
- Tess Of D'urbervilles: A Pure Woman
- Author
- Hardy, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- MacMillan & Co
- Date Published
- 1926
Terms of Sale
Stone Soup Books
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About the Seller
Stone Soup Books
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Waynesboro, Virginia
About Stone Soup Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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