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HORACE WALPOLE: A Biography
by Ketton-Cremer, R. W
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Longmans, Green and Co, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD/Very Good. 368 pp. Crisp and sturdy. Red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket toned, worn with minor loss to tail edge, sunned; now in mylar. Deckled page edges. Portrait frontispiece.
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- Bookseller
- Arches Bookhouse
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6919
- Title
- HORACE WALPOLE: A Biography
- Author
- Ketton-Cremer, R. W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and Co
- Date Published
- 1940
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Terms of Sale
Arches Bookhouse
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Arches Bookhouse
Biblio member since 2022
Portland, Oregon
About Arches Bookhouse
Brick & mortar humanities bookshop in Portland, OR. Philosophy, history, theology, literature, art.
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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
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- Cloth
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