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John Ford: Mermaid series
by H (ed) Ellis
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG/ND
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK IN THE MERMAID SERIES. ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1888.* Publisher: Vizetelly & Co.* Binding and cover condition: Mid brown cloth covered boards, faded gilt title & decoration to spine with black titles & decoration to face. Slight bumps & rubs, some shelf wear to corners and to head and tail of spine. Marks and age to spine. VG* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers (dark greenish black). Minimal offsetting to prelims. Owners name to f.f.e.p. (dated 1888) & below (dated 1904). All edges darkened especially top-edge. Some edges un-cut. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight paper colouration to page margins. VG+.* Illustrations: B/w tissue guarded plate at frontis showing ?The Bankside and its? theatres,? black vignettes and decorative strips to sections and at finis.* Pages: 472 pp. text iii pp ads & blank pages at rear.* Description: This volume contains:- An introduction to John Ford; The Lover?s Melancholy; ?Tis Pity She?s a Whore; The Broken Heart; Love?s Sacrifice; Perkin Warbeck.* A NEAR VG++ text copy of the 1st thus with some age and wear reducing it to VG. No dust jacket.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9487
- Title
- John Ford: Mermaid series
- Author
- H (ed) Ellis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn. Thus.
- Publisher
- Vizetelly & Co
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 475
- Date Published
- 1888-01-01
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About the Seller
Cocksparrow Books
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
About Cocksparrow Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 1st Thus
- This indicates that this is not the first appearance of a book in print, but that this is the first appearance in a...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
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