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The Heroes
by Charles Kingsley
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: J M Dent & Sons Ltd, 1918 Book. Illus. by T H Robinson. Fair. Blue Cloth Boards. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Everyman's Library No.113. Collection of stories of the Greek heroes first published in 1856. 229pp illustrated with 11 black and white drawings. Title page illustrated in black and white, decorated endpapers, top edges tinted. Bumping to spine and corners, lettering on spine faded and soiling to boards and edges. A few marks to margins, otherwise fair reading copy..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Washburn Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013787
- Title
- The Heroes
- Author
- Charles Kingsley
- Illustrator
- T H Robinson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- J M Dent & Sons Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1918
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
Terms of Sale
Washburn Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Washburn Books
Biblio member since 2010
Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
About Washburn Books
Washburn Books is a small family business, based in Yorkshire. We offer a wide variety of hard-to-find and out-of-print books in our virtual store, as well as an offline search service. We take pride in our fast delivery of well packaged books.
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Title Page
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- Fair
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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....
- 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...
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- 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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