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Twenty-One Tales
by Rudyard Kipling
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Folio Society, 1972. Hardcover. Good. 1972. No Edition Remarks. 355 pages. No dust jacket, Folio edition with slipcase. Yellow cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Blue slipcase. Selected with an Introduction by Tim Wilkinson. Illustrated by Ian Ribbons. Contains black and white in-text illustrations. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Light thumb-marking present. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Slipcase has light edge wear with minor markings to panels and splits to joints. Moderate sunning to edges.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1659730606LEE
- Title
- Twenty-One Tales
- Author
- Rudyard Kipling
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Folio Society
- Date Published
- 1972
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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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