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The Man from Blankley's
by Anstey, F
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/GD/ND
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 2nd. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1893* Publisher: Longman's Green & Co.* Binding and cover condition: Patterned paper to beige cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine & with decorated title to face. Heavy bumps & rubs, considerable shelf wear. Spine aged and split but now re-inforced. (No Losses.) ACC.* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Patterned and lightly coloured end papers. Text clean, crisp, tight and bright. Some age darkening to top and fore-edge. No inscriptions or annotations. VG.* Illustrations: Full plate to frontis (tissue guarded) & line drawn illustrations throughout.* Pages: 151 pp. text.* Product description:- These sketches were re-printed from Punch and were written by F. Anstey. Illustrated with twenty-nine plates by J. Bernard Partridge. There are 21 essays which include the title story and such others as "Boat-Race day, At The Wild West and Choosing Christmas Toys.? This is a NEAR VG+ text copy of the 2nd edn. with considerable cover age and wear reducing it to ACC.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8944
- Title
- The Man from Blankley's
- Author
- Anstey, F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/GD/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd. Edition, 1st Imp.
- Publisher
- Longmans
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 151
- Date Published
- 1893-01-01
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
Cocksparrow Books
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
About Cocksparrow Books
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- ND
- no publisher's date given
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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....
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