Words And Idioms: Studies In The English Language
by Logan Pearsall Smith
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Constable & Company Ltd., 1943. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1943. Fifth Edition. 300 pages. Pink dust jacket over green cloth with gilt lettering. Loss to jacket spine end. Pages are lightly tanned with moderate foxing to endpapers, pastedowns and text block edges. Minor dog-eared corners. Occasional thumb-marking present throughout, with a few small nicks along text block edge. Boards have light shelf-wear with slight corner bumping. Faint tanning to spine and edges. Book has a minor forward lean. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear, with chips, tears and creasing to edges and corners. Slight loss to upper spine end, and water drop on rear panel. Moderately tanned and foxed overall.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1688479405ANC
- Title
- Words And Idioms: Studies In The English Language
- Author
- Logan Pearsall Smith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Constable & Company Ltd.
- Date Published
- 1943
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...