Plays: The Power of Darkness, The First Distiller, Fruits of Culture
by Leo Tolstoy
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Constable & Co., 1910. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1910. Second Edition. 233 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. B&W photographs throughout. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Previous owner's name to front endpaper. Pages are rough cut. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with crushing to spine ends. Notable tanning to spine and board edges, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1710933363IEV
- Title
- Plays: The Power of Darkness, The First Distiller, Fruits of Culture
- Author
- Leo Tolstoy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Constable & Co.
- Date Published
- 1910
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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...
- 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....