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Oswald Cray
by Mrs Henry Wood
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good-/No jacket
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
Item Price
NZ$25.26NZ$18.94
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About This Item
Oswald Cray by Mrs Henry Wood
Hardback, 1896, fifty-second thousand, published by Richard Bentley and Son, London, 456 pages + vi and one-page catalogue of other publications by the author at rear.
Octavo/8vo. Measures around 7 3/4" by 5 1/2" by 1". Olive-green cloth binding, black lettering to front board, gilt lettering to spine. Some scuffing and a little marking, some signs of shelf-wear, slightly bumped corners. Book has forward tilt. Binding reasonably firm, though some cracking to rear inner hinge. Page edges slightly deckled and a few page edges have slight jagged and torn edges due to the leaves having been a little unevenly separated. Page edges also browned, stained, a little scuffed and very slightly tanned. Some marking to endpapers but otherwise page surfaces clean, no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.
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- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-594
- Title
- Oswald Cray
- Author
- Mrs Henry Wood
- Format/Binding
- Hardback, cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Richard Bentley and Son
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1896
- Pages
- 456+
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
GN Books and Prints
Biblio member since 2022
Inverness, Highland
About GN Books and Prints
Seller based in the Scottish Highlands, dealing in a variety of books, including antiquarian, vintage and modern.
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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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
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