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Humour of the Law: Forensic Anecdotes
by Jacob Larwood
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition (ex-library)/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chatto & Windus, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover (Printed Boards). Good Condition (ex-library)/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 304 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Spine has worked loose at edges and been re-glued in position. Endpapers browned, text block clean. Edges badly foxed and browned. Text and spine marked with Library stamps, but very discreetly, in all other respects in fair condition . Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Law & Criminal Studies; Britain/UK; Humour. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 30722. .
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- Seller
- Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
(AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 30722
- Title
- Humour of the Law: Forensic Anecdotes
- Author
- Jacob Larwood
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Printed Boards)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition (ex-library)
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Date Published
- 1903
- Keywords
- BZDB1 Law & Criminal Studies; Britain/UK; Humour. Jacob Larwood Humour of the Law: Forensic Anecdotes
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humour;
Terms of Sale
Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
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About the Seller
Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Biblio member since 2004
Katoomba, New South Wales
About Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Mr Pickwick's occupies a large, 3-storey former Bank building in the heart of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia. We carry over 60,000 books in store, and cater to both the specialist collector trade as well as the general book trade in this region. Mr Pickwick's is one of the most comprehensive bookshops in Australia, and also operates an extensive Bookfinder service for its several thousand database clients.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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