Little Meg's Children and Alone in London
by Hesba Stretton
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Oswestry, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Religious Tract Society.. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. Hardback with no dust jacket - undated but presentation plate to front paste-down dated 1910. In overall good to very good condition with the usual minor signs of handling and storage - red cloth illustrated and decorated boards are a little tanned to edges and spine, spine head a little soft - gilt titles and page ends still bright. Binding reasonably tight, no annotations or inscriptions, some tanning to end papers and page edges but text clean and clear throughout.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hall of Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 110392
- Title
- Little Meg's Children and Alone in London
- Author
- Hesba Stretton
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Religious Tract Society.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
Terms of Sale
Hall of Books
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About the Seller
Hall of Books
Biblio member since 2020
Oswestry, Shropshire
About Hall of Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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