Ballads and Tales
by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Smith, Elder & Co., 1869. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1869. No Edition Remarks. 413 pages. No dust jacket. Green embossed cloth with gilt lettering. Ex Libris plate to front pastedown. Rough-cut pages. Moderate tanning to pages. Gutters are cracked with the netting exposed but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear; light scuffing to rear board. Spine has light tanning withmoderate crushing and fraying to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a forward lean. throughout.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1665574851CRO
- Title
- Ballads and Tales
- Author
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Smith, Elder & Co.
- Date Published
- 1869
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- 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....