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Desperate Remedies, A Novel
by Thomas Hardy
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1912. Hardcover. Good. 1912. Reprint. 473 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Rebound. Mild brown staining to pages on occasion. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Ex-library with usual stamps, inserts and markings. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with sunning to spine. Minor scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Dewy code to spine.
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Details
- Seller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1699288057BLG
- Title
- Desperate Remedies, A Novel
- Author
- Thomas Hardy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co., Limited
- Date Published
- 1912
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
World of Rare Books
Biblio member since 2009
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
About World of Rare Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 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...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
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