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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater together with Selections from the Autobiography
by Thomas De Quincey
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Cresset Press, 1950. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1950. No Edition Remarks. 339 pages. Grey dust jacket over dark blue cloth. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and heavy foxing to text block edges. Boards have visible rubbing and noticeable bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and rubbing to spine. Unclipped jacket with major edge wear and sunning to spine. There is visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends and splitting to joints and front flap coming away from the jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1633681873MHP
- Title
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater together with Selections from the Autobiography
- Author
- Thomas De Quincey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Cresset Press
- Date Published
- 1950
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
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