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Lydia Bailey
by Kenneth Roberts
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good-
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
Item Price
£8.10£7.29
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Hardcover with dust jacket, published by Doubleday, 1947. This is a Book Club Edition. From the author of 'The Lively Lady', set in 1800, the story of Albion Hamlin, a lawyer in Boston, who goes in search of the missing niece of a client, reported to have died in Haiti. 488 pages, 6" X 8-1/2". The dust jacket has some shallow chip marks to the head and heel of the spine, edge wear, a couple of abrasion marks on the left front at the spine, age tanning throughout, staining marks that are visible on the obverse. Black cloth covered boards, with the author name and title imprinted on the spine in gold, with a decorative shield with the author's initials debossed in the center, on the front cover and spine. Boards show just some light edge wear. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Rough edged text pages. Foxing dots to the top edges. Sewn binding is tight and square. Not a remainder, not a library discard. The attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory.
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Details
- Seller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 21-728
- Title
- Lydia Bailey
- Author
- Kenneth Roberts
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Date Published
- 1947
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Boston, Historical, Lively Lady
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Classics; Historical Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Hopkins Books
Biblio member since 2015
Nashua, New Hampshire
About Hopkins Books
We're a small, independent, family run book seller specializing in current fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on Art, Art History, History, Memoirs, Travel Memoirs, Signed First Editions, and Literature in Translation.Do you have any questions about our books ? Let us know, we'd love to hear from you! Do you want to see a photo of a book before you order it ? We try to post as many photos as possbiel, but sometimes there will be a item in inventory that does not show a photo here. So feel free to ask for photos, we don't mind at all. We package all of our orders carefully either in a box that has been designed to ship books, or in a padded envelope. We want to make sure you receive your order in the best possible condition!Our preferred shipping method is USPS Media Mail. Recently, the USPS has added tracking to Media Mail , which has been a great addition to this service.If you do choose to have your order shipped "Expedited", my shipping cost may seem higher than expected. Some of our books are large format hardcovers that can cost quite a bit when shipped expedited. So I would like to make sure that I can cover the cost upfront. However, if the actual cost of expedited shipping is less than the charge, I will refund the difference!
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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...
- 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...
- Remainder
- Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...
- 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....
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
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