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Country Stories
by Mary Russell Mitford
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Saunders and Otley, 1837. First edition. Hardback. Very Good. 8" by 5". None . First edition in its original binding of this anthology of country tales by Mary Russell Mitford. Work dedicated to the country life in the nineteenth century by the author of Our Village, Mary Russell Mitford. The first edition of this work.Two leaves of advertisements to rear. In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding over paper covered boards, titles in gilt to morocco spine label. Externally smart with shelf wear, lightly bumped to head and tail of spine and chipped to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean. Very Good
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 837A54
- Title
- Country Stories
- Author
- Mary Russell Mitford
- Illustrator
- None
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Saunders and Otley
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1837
- Size
- 8" by 5"
- Keywords
- mary russell mitford first editions country life first editions
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Rooke Books
Biblio member since 2007
BATH, Somerset
About Rooke Books
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
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