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'Life in Italy - The Improvisatore' with 'The Life of Hans Christian Andersen'
by Andersen, Hans Christian; Mary Howitt (trans.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Harper & Brothers, Publishers. Fair with No dust jacket as issued. 1863. Hardback. Boards firm, bound in coarse brown cloth with a few scratches, nicks and stains; The text is free from annotations, however it is heavily foxed and discoloured, signature to the title page in brown ink, small puncture marks near the inner crease from the previous stitch-binding before the book was backed in cloth; Binding tight. Overall a nice and firm copy with obvious staining to the pages. Scarce ; 24 x 15 x 1 cm; 124 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walden Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46511
- Title
- 'Life in Italy - The Improvisatore' with 'The Life of Hans Christian Andersen'
- Author
- Andersen, Hans Christian; Mary Howitt (trans.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with No dust jacket as issued
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers, Publishers
- Date Published
- 1863
Terms of Sale
Walden Books
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About the Seller
Walden Books
Biblio member since 2010
London, Greater London
About Walden Books
Second-hand and antiquarian booksellers since 1977, in present shop since 1979, open Thurs-Sunday, with an emphasis on History of Art and Architecture, Photography, Literature and Poetry, Literary Biography and Criticism and the the History of London.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...