ALTON LOCKE: Tailor and Poet. An Autobiography
by Charles Kingsley
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good +
- Seller
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Blue Hill, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1857. copyright edition. Hardcover. Good +. 369 pgs. 4 x 6 1/2 in. Brown half calf with marbled paper boards. Gilt leather label and decoration on spine. 4 raised bands. Marble endpapers. Condition of book is GOOD+; Covers, spines worn. Corners bumped. Wear to boards, slight stain on cover leather. Text somewhat foxed throughout. Upper text block darkened. Binding very tight.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2979
- Title
- ALTON LOCKE
- Author
- Charles Kingsley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- copyright edition
- Publisher
- Bernhard Tauchnitz
- Place of Publication
- Leipzig
- Date Published
- 1857
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About the Seller
Andre Strong Bookseller
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Blue Hill, Maine
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Glossary
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- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
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