Cricket on the Hearth: a Fairy Tale of Home
by Charles Dickens
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
George Routledge & Sons, 1901. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1901. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Contains black and white illustrations throughout, some to plates. Shaky binding due to cracked hinges, but all pages remain attached. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed, but text remains clear. Plates are bright. Label to front pastedown. Boards and spine have minimal shelf-wear, with mild corner bumping and crushing to ends. Spine is moderately sunned. Gilt remains bright. Moderate rubbing and scuffing overall. Boards are slightly bowed.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1675942861IEV
- Title
- Cricket on the Hearth: a Fairy Tale of Home
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George Routledge & Sons
- Date Published
- 1901
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- 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,...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...