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WARWICK CASTLE AND ITS EARLS from Saxon times to the present day (2 vols)
by Warwick, Countess of 02a
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- GOOD(scuffed) books, no DJs. Green cloth, gilt lettered spine.
- Seller
-
Lyndonville, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY & London: Dutton & Hutchinson. GOOD(scuffed) books, no DJs. Green cloth, gilt lettered spine.. No date.. Hardcover. GOOD (scuffed) books. TEG. Tight. FINE inside. Warwick coat of arms in gilt on front covers. 25X18X5(cm), 882 total pages. . Covers clean but a bit shabby. Gilt of text block top edges darkened. FINE inside; pastedowns, end papers, text & plates bright as new. No marginalia, aging, foxing, etc. Also, both books stay closed when stood on their spines. They've likely never been read, .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002675
- Title
- WARWICK CASTLE AND ITS EARLS from Saxon times to the present day (2 vols)
- Author
- Warwick, Countess of 02a
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - GOOD(scuffed) books, no DJs. Green cloth, gilt lettered spine.
- Publisher
- Dutton & Hutchinson
- Place of Publication
- NY & London
- Date Published
- No date.
- Keywords
- GOOD (scuffed) books. TEG. Tight. FINE inside. Warwick coat of arms in, gilt on front covers. 25X18X5(cm), 882 total pages.
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
Glossary
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
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