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Jackanapes and Other Tales
by Ewing, J. H
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: G. Bell & Sons, Ltd.. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1913. Hardcover. vii, 196 p. 18 cm. Sound and square binding, in red, cloth-covered boards. Upper board and spine titles and illustrations in stamped white. Top edge gilt. Corners bumped. Darkening to tail of spine and bottom front corner, where jacket piece is missing. Some fading to the edges. White colouring of titles on spine has rubbed off, spine illustration less so. Offset discoloration to front endpapers. Small bookseller's stamp on front free endpaper. Inside pages and plates generally bright and clean, with a bit of fingering and two pages with shadow mark from ribbon marker (ribbon removed). Dustwrapper has large pieces gone from spine annd two corners. A few other small chips and holes. Some edge and fold tears. Front panel darkened with a sticker pull. Three stories included: Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot, and The Story of a Short Life. Illustrated with 8 full colour plates by H. M. Brock. Decorated endpapers and title page. The Queen's Treasure Series .
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- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 866
- Title
- Jackanapes and Other Tales
- Author
- Ewing, J. H
- Illustrator
- H. M. Brock
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Publisher
- G. Bell & Sons, Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1913
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Classics;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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...
- A.N.
- The book is pristine and free of any defects, in the same condition as ...
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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