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My Schools and Schoolmasters or the Story of my Education.
by Hugh Miller
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Thomas Constable, 1857. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1857. No Edition Remarks. 562 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Heavy tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and slight dog-eared pages throughout. Major tanning to text block edges and front hinge is cracked with exposed netting. There is cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Boards have heavy sunning and rubbing with moderate bumping to corners. Heavy crushing to spine ends and major sunning to spine. Splitting to joints.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1632208925BWO
- Title
- My Schools and Schoolmasters or the Story of my Education.
- Author
- Hugh Miller
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Thomas Constable
- Date Published
- 1857
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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