HARDBACK " VOLUME II ONLY, RARELY AVAILABLE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 2nd.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1875* Publisher: John Hodges.* Binding and cover condition: Blue cloth, gilt title to spine and face with JH logo to lower front board. Considerable bumps & rubs to edges & corners with minor losses to head ? tail of spine. ACC* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Very dark green end papers. Clean & crisp, with minor reading wear, some slight age marks to text and to prelims, faint owners name and date to half title. Hinges and binding cracked but no pages loose, damaged or missing. GD* Illustrations: Small b/w design vignettes to head and tail of chapters throughout.* Pages: 271 pp. text. xviii pp. book index at rear.* Description: A collections of traditions and stories from Yorkshire written by the Victorian vicar responsible for the hymn ?Onward Christian Soldiers?. Subtitled ?Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events,? vol II contains odd and out-of-the-way information concerning Yorkshire folk. Each of the fifteen chapters is devoted to a different story and set of characters. A humorous read for those with Yorkshire interests and a real flavour of the counties? characters.* A GOOD text copy with binding and cover and age faults reducing it to ACC. No dust jacket.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 5245
Title: Yorkshire Oddities Incidents and Strange Events (2 Volumes)
Author: Baring-Gould, Sabine
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - GD++/ACC/ND
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Second Edition,
Publisher: John Hodges
Place of Publication: London Uk 271
Date Published: 1875-01-01

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Tail: The heel of the spine.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Bumps: Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
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...
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....
Cracked: In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
Half Title: The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
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...
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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...