Songs and Verses
by G.J. Whyte-Melville
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Ryde, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Bombay, Sydney: Constable and Company Ltd., 1924. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Illustrated by Lionel Edwards. Firmly bound, navy blue cloth boards and gilt titles. Some handling wear and marks including scuffed edges and bumped corners. Front inner hinge cracked. Foxing marks and browning on end papers. Some creasing on mounted illustration pages
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ryde Bookshop Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 049767
- Title
- Songs and Verses
- Author
- G.J. Whyte-Melville
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by Lionel Edwards
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Constable and Company Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London, Bombay, Sydney
- Date Published
- 1924
- Pages
- 149
- Keywords
- poetry, fox hunting, countryside
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
Terms of Sale
Ryde Bookshop Limited
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Ryde Bookshop Limited
Biblio member since 2021
Ryde, Isle of Wight
About Ryde Bookshop Limited
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- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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