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Robinson of England
by Drinkwater, John
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: The London Brass Rubbing Centre, 1937. First US Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. J H Dowd. Type: Hardback First Us Edition, First Printing. Hardcover Book in Good + Conditiion. No dust wrapper. Drawings/sketches throughout by J H Dowd. Red cloth with decorated spine w/white lettering, very clean and unmarked, lightly scuffed corners and spine edges, board edges rubbed; tight and solid sewn binding, inner hinge cracked. Pages faintly toned, very clean, no markings, no creases. Endpapers with writing, stamp on paste-down. As the illustration on the frontis says. "He was in love with England", and his best time was when he was exploring and re-discovering England with his young nephews and nieces, its history, people, places--Charles I, Cromwell, William Morris, English rivers, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edmund Burke, Charles James Fox,--and so much more. 326 pages. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. 1937, The Macmillan Company, New York.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025645
- Title
- Robinson of England
- Author
- Drinkwater, John
- Illustrator
- J H Dowd
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US Edition
- Publisher
- The London Brass Rubbing Centre
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1937
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ENGLAND CORNWALL HISTORY, GREAT BRITAIN CHARLES I CROMWELL WILLIAM MORRIS EDMUND BURKE JAMES FOX
- Bookseller catalogs
- History. Great Britain;
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- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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