HANDLEY CROSS or Mr Jorrocks's Hunt
by Surtees, Robert S 04d
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG book. REPRINT. 8vo, 587pp. Red cloth, bevelled boards. Bright
- Seller
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Lyndonville, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Bradbury Agnew. VG book. REPRINT. 8vo, 587pp. Red cloth, bevelled boards. Bright. ND c 1880. REPRINT.. Hardcover. VG book. 8vo, (16),587pp. Hand colored tp & 17 full page hand colored engravings on heavy paper stock. 8vo, xvi,578pp. . 66 in text & 22 full page woodcuts. Colorful cover. Red decorative cloth boards. Front cover vignette of title & horseman in gilt bordered by black edge ruling & running dogs. Spine lettering in gilt & black and a fat Jorrocks. Sunned spine. Extrems worn some. Bkplt inside. Weak inner hinges, outer still sound, also several signatures cracked. No frontis, as issued. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001003
- Title
- HANDLEY CROSS or Mr Jorrocks's Hunt
- Author
- Surtees, Robert S 04d
- Illustrator
- Leech 18 hand colored illus
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG book. REPRINT. 8vo, 587pp. Red cloth, bevelled boards. Bright
- Edition
- REPRINT.
- Publisher
- Bradbury Agnew
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- ND c 1880
- Keywords
- VG book. 8vo, (16),587pp. Hand colored tp & 17 full page hand colored, engravings on heavy paper stock. 8vo, xvi,578pp., leech, colored, steel, 04d
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
Glossary
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- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- ND
- no publisher's date given
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....