Collecting as a Pastime
by Charles Rowed
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Cassell, 1920. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1920. No Edition Stated. 147 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with dark green lettering. B&W photographs throughout. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Front hinge cracked. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper, with plate opposite. Some gutter cracking. Some plates are loose or detached. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing, soiling and marking to boards. Moderate sunning to spine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1678791819ADA
- Title
- Collecting as a Pastime
- Author
- Charles Rowed
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Cassell
- Date Published
- 1920
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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,...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- 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...