Highways and Byways in Hardy's Wessex
by Lea., Hermann
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG+/ND.
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Pocket edition thus. Reprinted.* Publisher: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. * Binding and cover condition: Dark green cloth, gilt titles to spine and face. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear. VG+.* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Previous owner's name and address to front paste-down. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with only light reading wear, no marks to text, slight age to prelims & darkening to all edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: Numerous b/w photos, within text throughout. Black and white three page foldout map at rear.* Pages: 314 pp. text. x pp. map, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: The purpose of this book, s it's title indicates, is to depict the Wessex country of Thomas Hardy, with a view to discovering the real places which served as bases for the descriptions of scenery and backgrounds given us in the novels and poems. In addition there are notes on the family residence and the locations where he was bought up and those where he lived in later life.* A NEAR VG++ copy with NO MAJOR FAULTS but no dust jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5941
- Title
- Highways and Byways in Hardy's Wessex
- Author
- Lea., Hermann
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG+/ND.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn. Thus, Reprinted.
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co. Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 321
- Date Published
- 1928-01-01
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- 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....
- ND
- no publisher's date given
- Bumps
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- Cloth
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- Tight
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- Shelf Wear
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- Crisp
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- Edges
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- Paste-down
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- Jacket
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- 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...