Literature and Pulpit in Medieval England: A Neglected Chapter in the History of English Letters & of the English People
by Owst, G.R
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Good
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Basil Blackwell. Used - Good. 1966. Second Edition; Second Printing. hardcover. Cloth, dj. Octavo. 614 pp. Some shelf wear, toning, and severe chipping & tearing to dust jacket, with cellophane tape repairs. Price clipped. Spine mildly cocked. Bookplate to front pastedown. Margin notes to text. Altogether a copy in Good condition. Good. (Subject: Medieval, Literature English).
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- Powell's Bookstores Chicago
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- C62225
- Title
- Literature and Pulpit in Medieval England: A Neglected Chapter in the History of English Letters & of the English People
- Author
- Owst, G.R
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Basil Blackwell
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- Price Clipped
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- Bookplate
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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- 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....
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Shelf Wear
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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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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