Grain Or Chaff? The Autobiography of A Police Magistrate, Alfred Chichele Plowden
by Plowden, Alfred Chichele
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. viii, 342 (1) pp, b&w frontis, preface, 34 chapters, finale. Minor edgewear. Browning to ffep with light foxing to edges and 341 to end, else, clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Blue cloth with impressed gilt emblem and lettering..
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002646
- Title
- Grain Or Chaff? The Autobiography of A Police Magistrate, Alfred Chichele Plowden
- Author
- Plowden, Alfred Chichele
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- T. Fisher Unwin
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1903
- Keywords
- TRUE CRIME BRITAIN AUTOBIOGRAPHY POLICE MAGISTRATE PLOWDEN ALFRED CHICHELE
- Bookseller catalogs
- TRUE CRIME;
- Size
- Large 8vo
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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