The Gold Thread And Martin The Cobbler
by Norman MacLeod and Leo Tolstoy
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Blackie & Son Ltd, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Remarks. 126 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Colour illustrations. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some heavy cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding very loose. Some page corners folded. A previous owner's name redacted on reverse of title page. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Some additional heavy rubbing and staining to surfaces.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1702393073CAB
- Title
- The Gold Thread And Martin The Cobbler
- Author
- Norman MacLeod and Leo Tolstoy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Blackie & Son Ltd
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- 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....
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...