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Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances; or, What he Said, Did, or Invented
by Slick, Sam Psued. (Haliburton, Thomas Chandler)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Auckland, New Zealand
Item Price
£60.50£42.35
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London, United Kingdom: Hurst & Blackett, 1859. Revised and updates. Satirical humour written by Canadia Author, Judge and Politician. CONDITION Blue blind embossed cloth with bright gilt titles and decoration, lemon eps, engraved frontis by John Leech, pp vi 329, plus 16 page publishers cat bound in to rear. Copy is bright and clean internally, cloth is toned to spine with frayed spine head and heel, cnrs rubbed, gutter split to eps at hinges, mull intact. Atmospheric toning to frontis/title pages.. Re-Issue. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ariel Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14723
- Title
- Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances; or, What he Said, Did, or Invented
- Author
- Slick, Sam Psued. (Haliburton, Thomas Chandler)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Re-Issue
- Publisher
- Hurst & Blackett
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1859
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humour;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ariel Books
Biblio member since 2003
Auckland
About Ariel Books
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Glossary
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- 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...
- 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.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
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