The Little Duke
by Charlotte M. Yonge
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1927. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1927. Reprinted. 224 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Contains colour illustrated plates. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to a few pages. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Occasional thumb-marking present. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Book is slightly forward leaning. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Dark brown and blue rubbing and marking to surfaces, with scuffing to edges.
Synopsis
On a bright autumn day, as long ago as the year 943, there was a great bustle in the Castle of Bayeux in Normandy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1631867805LSA
- Title
- The Little Duke
- Author
- Charlotte M. Yonge
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press
- Date Published
- 1927
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....