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Cricket
by Horace G. Hutchinson (Editor)
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Country Life, 1903. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1903. No Edition Remarks. 454 pages. No dust jacket. The 'Country Life' Library of Sport. Red cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Pages are moderate tanned with notable foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Former owner's inscription to front free endpaper, with a pencil inscription to paste-down. Liquid staining to pages 256-257. Slight cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Visible thumb-marking present throughout, with a few small nicks, rub marks and water drops along text block edge. Boards have heavy shelf-wear with noticeable bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and considerate rub wear to surfaces. Liquid drops on all surfaces. Fairly heavy tanning to spine and edges. Boards are subtly bowed.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1690287311IEV
- Title
- Cricket
- Author
- Horace G. Hutchinson (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Country Life
- Date Published
- 1903
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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....
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