Bellairs, 1896. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1896. Second Edition. 295 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with a colour illustrated frontis. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and there is cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Heavy tanning to text block edges. Boards have visible rubbing and moderate bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and visible sunning to spine as well.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1622213919DPB
Title: In Scarlet and Silk
Author: Fox Russell
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Bellairs
Date Published: 1896

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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

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....
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...
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....
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....