CELIBATE LIVES (THE EBURY EDITION)
by GEORGE MOORE
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON : WILLIAM HEINEMANN , 1937 Navy Blue Buckram with gilt blocked titles to spine, 220 x 145 mm approx.Top edge stained blue, x + 200 pp. First Ebury Edition printing 1937. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good (Book- no notable shelf wear or soiling to cloth, mild foxing to fore and bottom edge of book block, offset browning bands to free end papers, no prvious owner name or insc. Pages of book block clean and binding sound. Duust Jacket- shelf rubbed with nicks and tears and moderate foxing showing through, publisher replacement price labels over original cover price to spine and upper panel. soiling spot 1 cm dia. to rear. Spine tanned. Now in a removable proprietary protective sleeve to which pieces of coloured paper have been inserted to mask the stark white of the backing paper so as not to offend the eye on the bookshelf.
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 131283
- Title
- CELIBATE LIVES (THE EBURY EDITION)
- Author
- GEORGE MOORE
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- WILLIAM HEINEMANN
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- Celibate Lives, George Moore, Wilfred Holmes, Priscilla and Emily Lofft, Alfred Nobbs, Henrietta Marr, Sarah Gwynn, Biographies,
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- 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...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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....
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...