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Harold's Ambition or A Dream of Fame
by Jennie Perrett
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good-/No jacket
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
Item Price
£12.99£9.74
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About This Item
Harold's Ambition or A Dream of Fame by Jennie Perrett
Hardback, undated but circa 1890 (bookplate dated 1891 to front board), first edition, illustrated, published by Blackie & Son, Limited, London, 96 pages + 8-page publisher catalogue at rear.
Octavo/8vo, measures around 6 5/8" by 4 1/2" by 3/8". No dust jacket. Green cloth binding, pictorial detail and gilt lettering to front board, black lettering to spine. Some marking, scuffing and discolouration. Signs of wear, rubbing at edges and on hinges, bumped corners. Book has slight forward tilt. Cracking to front inner hinge though otherwise binding reasonably firm. Page edges browned, a bit foxed and marked. Prizegiving bookplate to front pastedown. Some marking to endpapers and to pages throughout but no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.
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Details
- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-516
- Title
- Harold's Ambition or A Dream of Fame
- Author
- Jennie Perrett
- Format/Binding
- Hardback, cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Blackie & Son, Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- Circa 1890
- Pages
- 96+
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
GN Books and Prints
Biblio member since 2022
Inverness, Highland
About GN Books and Prints
Seller based in the Scottish Highlands, dealing in a variety of books, including antiquarian, vintage and modern.
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- Spine
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- Hinge
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- First Edition
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- Edges
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- Marginalia
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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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
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