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Poor Boys Who Became Famous
by Sarah K. Bolton
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hodder and Stoughton, 1886. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1886. No Edition Remarks. 367 pages. No dust jacket. Green pictorial boards with gilt lettering and decoration. Contains black and white photographic and illustrated plates. One plate has been re-attached. Reinforcement to gutters. Pages are moderately tanned with mild foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Presentation plate stuck to front paste-down, with a few small nicks along text block edge. Notable cracking to hinge and gutters with exposed netting. Binding remains mostly firm. Moderate dog-eared corners. Plates are moderately tanned. Occasional thumb-marking present throughout. Boards have heavy shelf-wear with mild bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and considerate rub wear to surfaces. Heavy tanning to spine and edges with liquid staining on front and rear boards. Book has a subtle forward lean and bow. Book has a subtle forward lean and bow.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1692281200DPB
- Title
- Poor Boys Who Became Famous
- Author
- Sarah K. Bolton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Date Published
- 1886
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
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