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Tom Brown's Schooldays
by Hughes, Thomas
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1920. Book. Fine. Hardcover. New Edition.. A fine book in a publisher's very good original box! "New Edition - Beautifully Illustrated" - very clean hardcover book in original glassine wrapper and publisher's decorated box. No date of publication - circa early 1900's. Very clean unfaded brown ribbed cloth boards with color paste-on illustration of school entrance with trees - no wear to book, including cover illustration; crisp stamped white lettering on cover; stamped white lettering and small circular decoration on spine (all fine and unchipped). No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers. No names, writing or marks. No foxing. Very nice black and white illustrations throughout (on glossy plates, along with smaller illustrations in text). "Preface to the Sixth English Edition" at start of book. 418 pages. Original glassine wrapper has closed tears. Box with illustrated cover (cover has small sticker scrape, cracking to one corner - expertly reglued), a few tiny edge nicks, small spots of wear to corners..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30316
- Title
- Tom Brown's Schooldays
- Author
- Hughes, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- New Edition.
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1920
- Keywords
- CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, THOMAS HUGHES, NEW EDITION, BOX, FICTION, EDUCATION, SCHOOL DAYS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Education;
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
Biblio member since 2003
Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Glassine Wrapper
- A thin, partially transparent or translucent paper covering often used ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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