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The Family at Misrule
by Turner, Ethel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Ward, Lock & Co.. Good+ with no dust jacket. [c1902]. Hardcover. Previous owner's name dated "Xmas 1908" on half title page. Dampstains to rear board. An 8 x 2mm chip to cloth in rear joint. ; Reprint. No date [c1902]. 282, [6 (advertisements)] pages + black-and-white frontispiece + 2 black-and-white plates. Plates are facing pages 12 and 270 (but called for on the plates to be facing pages 13 and 271). Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering and illustration on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 186 x 122mm. All page edges gilt. Dark grey coated endpapers. In-text illustrations. Illustrated by A. J. Johnson. Last page of advertisements lists 11 titles in the "Laddie" series. [Reference: c.f. Muir 7485] .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25859
- Title
- The Family at Misrule
- Author
- Turner, Ethel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Ward, Lock & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- [c1902]
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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