Kobbe's Complete Opera Book
by The Earl of Harewood Ed
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Putnam, London UK, 1966. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1966. Seventeenth Impression. 1262 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Pages bright with some tanning and foxing, particularly to textblock edges and endpapers. Minor pencil annotations to endpapers. Small Foyles label to front pastedown. Binding remains firm. Boards good with only slight shelf wear and marking. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping and mild rubbing and tanning.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1693292732MHP
- Title
- Kobbe's Complete Opera Book
- Author
- The Earl of Harewood Ed
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Putnam, London UK
- Date Published
- 1966
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...