Silk and Scarlet
by The Druid
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair Minus/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
-
Plainfield, Vermont, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London, England: Rogerson & Tuxford, 1862. Sold As Is -- Fair Minus condition. -- Red cloth boards with gilt decoration and lettering on front cover, gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated in b&w. -- Covers badly discolored in patches, with an overall somewhat mottled appearance -- rubbed, dulled and darkened; spine head worn with 1/2" closed tear. Signature from title page to page 2 of text is loose and laid in whole (holding together but loosening) -- inner hinge badly cracked there. Page block edges darkened/soiled. Small tear in paper at rear inner hinge. Large dampstain to plates between pages 262 and 263. Some other discolorations scattered inside, like at title page and frontispiece, also foxing in back matter. -- Overall in Fair Minus condition. 398 pp.. Hardcover. Fair Minus/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Country Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29640
- Title
- Silk and Scarlet
- Author
- The Druid
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair Minus
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Publisher
- Rogerson & Tuxford
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1862
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Horseracing, Horse Racing, Equine, Horses, Jockeys, English Horse Racing, Horse Racing History
Terms of Sale
The Country Bookshop
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
The Country Bookshop
Biblio member since 2011
Plainfield, Vermont
About The Country Bookshop
60,000 books, old postcards, and assorted paper ephemera in an old house located in the rural town of Plainfield, VT. We have been in business since 1974. We're open 7 days a week from 10 until 5.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- 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,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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....
- 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...
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