LETTERS TO A NIECE AND PRAYER TO THE VIRGIN OF CHARTRES, WITH A NIECE'S MEMORIES BY MABEL LA FARGE
by Adams, Henry
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
United Kingdom: Constable. Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1920. Hardcover. A good 1920 hardcover in an about good dustwrapper. The book is in slightly soiled grey quarter-bound paper covered boards bumped to the corners, the cloth backstrip is slightly foxed and bumped to the ends, internally no writing or stamps, unmarked ivoried pages with aged rought-cut text-block edges. The scarce fragile dustwrapper is foxed/soiled/sunned, creased to the edges with small losses to the spine ends/tips supplied in a new removable archival sleeve. Carefully packaged and posted within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland. .
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- Bookseller
- The Old Bookshelf (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24802
- Title
- LETTERS TO A NIECE AND PRAYER TO THE VIRGIN OF CHARTRES, WITH A NIECE'S MEMORIES BY MABEL LA FARGE
- Author
- Adams, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- Constable
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1920
Terms of Sale
The Old Bookshelf
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About the Seller
The Old Bookshelf
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Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute
About The Old Bookshelf
Welcome to the home of The Old Bookshelf, situated in Campbeltown on the West Coast of Scotland. Our wee bookshop holds over 15,000 New, Antiquarian, Out of Print and Used titles available for immediate despatch. We maintain a wide general stock, specialising in local, Scottish, maritime and military. Out of print and new titles are catalogued every day.Scottish Independent Retail Awards Regional Finalist: 2011 and 2015. Winner 2016
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- 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...