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The Maid Of Sker
by R. D. Blackmore
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
William Blackwood & Sons, 1895. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1895. New Edition. 471 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Library copy, with stamps to text block edges and traces of plates to pastedowns and endpapers. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Heavier tanning and foxing to other pages. Water staining to some pages including more heavily to pages 2-3. Front free endpaper heavily scratched and smeared. Pen inscription to half title page. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Severe water damage to edge of front board. Some fraying to cloth at spine ends.
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Details
- Seller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1707999770ADA
- Title
- The Maid Of Sker
- Author
- R. D. Blackmore
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- William Blackwood & Sons
- Date Published
- 1895
Terms of Sale
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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:
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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