Yarns on the Beach: a Bundle of Tales
by G. A. Henty
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Plus/No Jacket
- Seller
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Tucson, Arizona
Item Price
NZ$73.38
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About This Item
London: Blackie & Son 49 & 50 Old Bailey cloth hard cover is in good plus condition with some wear to extremeties with no dust jacket. boards are blue cloth with gold gilt and block lettering to front cover and spine. has a small inscription and date on fly page otherwise is unmarked and tighly bound.160 pages plus blackie & sons catalogue of books for young people.. Cloth. Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by J. J. Proctor. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Corliss Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007958
- Title
- Yarns on the Beach: a Bundle of Tales
- Author
- G. A. Henty
- Illustrator
- J. J. Proctor
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - Good Plus
- Jacket condition
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Blackie & Son 49 & 50 Old Bailey
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- Circa 1900
- Bookseller catalogs
- Corliss Books;
Terms of Sale
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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... [More]
- jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps... [More]
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched... [More]
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also... [More]
- 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.... [More]
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