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GOLD AND INCENSE, A WEST COUNTRY STORY, 35TH THOUSAND
by Pearse, Mark Guy
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- GD/GD/ND
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Horace, Marshall & Son, 1890-01-01. Late Impression.. Hardcover. GD/GD/ND. Box X29 HARDBACK ""UNCOMMON,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 35th. Thousand.* Impression: Late.* Date: 1890+.* Pub: Horace Marshall & Son.* Binding and cover condition: Olive green cloth covered boards with black titles to spine & face. Slight bumps, minor rubs, some wear to edges and corners and to head and tail of spine. Some marks to both boards & spine. GD++* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper, ND.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Owners names to ffep, with date Feb 7 1899. Clean & tight with only light reading wear, no marks to text, considerable tanning throughout especially to page margins and edges. Slightly shaken. GD++* Illustrations: Several b/w line drawings within text.* Pages: 96 pp. text. ii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: A charming nineteenth century short story set in the West Country. It may add to the interest of the story if you realise that it is perfectly true.* A NEAR VG copy with considerable age and wear reducing it to GD++. No dust jacket.* 0
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9165
- Title
- GOLD AND INCENSE, A WEST COUNTRY STORY, 35TH THOUSAND
- Author
- Pearse, Mark Guy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - GD/GD/ND
- Edition
- Late Impression.
- Publisher
- Horace, Marshall & Son
- Date Published
- 1890-01-01
- Pages
- 98
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Cocksparrow Books
Biblio member since 2019
Salisbury, Wiltshire
About Cocksparrow Books
Cocksparrow Books have been selling high quality books for over thirty years, now solely on-line. We concentrate on non-fiction items and early edition fiction (including some soft-backs). Our book condition descriptions are fully detailed to give our customers the best information possible and we are always pleased to provide further information upon request.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- ND
- no publisher's date given
- 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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