British Railways; The Romance of Their Achievement
by G. Gibbard Jackson
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Sampson Low Marston, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 244 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Cracking to hinges with exposed binding, causing boards to be loose. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have heavy edge wear with bumping to corners and rub wear all over. Crushing to spine ends with small splits and fraying to cloth. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Scuffing to spine joints.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1640773777LSA
- Title
- British Railways; The Romance of Their Achievement
- Author
- G. Gibbard Jackson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Sampson Low Marston
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About the Seller
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Biblio member since 2009
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...