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Thoughts Upon Sport
by Harry R. Sargent
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., 1895. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1895. No Edition Remarks. 446 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Includes two illustrated portrait frontispieces and several illustrations. Inscribed by author to front endpaper: "Faulkner A Simon with kind regards from the author". Light marking, foxing and moderate tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light cracking to gutters. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright. Large, heavy pale stain to spine. Book has a slight forward lean.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1690364076ADA
- Title
- Thoughts Upon Sport
- Author
- Harry R. Sargent
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd.
- Date Published
- 1895
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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