Stackars Jack [Poor Jack]
by Marryatt, Kapten [Captain Frederick]
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Stockholm: Adolf Johnsons Forlag. Fair. 1902. Hardcover. 427 p. 21 cm. Square binding with cloth covered spine and paper-covered, illustrated boards. Endpapers are split along front hinge but binding is still holding well. Worn through along the edges and spine ends. Spine faded. Darkening to edges of lower board. Text block edges are somewhat grimy. Shelf rubbed overall. Previous owner's name and a couple of tiny stamps on the front endpapers. Inside pages are clean and unmarked, with some toning mostly along edges. Presents better than it sounds. A Swedish edition of Frederick Marryatt's 1840 novel Poor Jack. Illustrated with black and white engravings. No. 69 of the publisher's Ungdomens Bibliotek. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5514
- Title
- Stackars Jack [Poor Jack]
- Author
- Marryatt, Kapten [Captain Frederick]
- Illustrator
- Anton Blomberg
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- Adolf Johnsons Forlag
- Place of Publication
- Stockholm
- Date Published
- 1902
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Adventure;
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
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Glossary
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- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- 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....