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The Strand Magazine: Volume I, January to June 1891
by NEWNES, GEORGE (ED)
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- Hardcover
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Hay on Wye, Powys, United Kingdom
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About This Item
1891. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket . No dustwrapper. Large 8vo. - Includes stories and articles by a number of famous writers including Dumas, Voltaire, Balzac, Pushkin and Arthur Conan Doyle - Bound in half black leather over black buckram boards - Covers heavily worn and chipped w/ edges and joints rubbed - Corners crushed and bumped - Boards exposed along along edges, corners, spine ends and joints - Spine a little cracked and worn w/ gilt lettering faded - Edges of text block tanned and stained - Endpapers unevenly tanned and foxed - Content badly toned and and foxed throughout - Some pages creased - Hinges breached but not open - Book ow/ solid and clean - 662 pages
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- Title
- The Strand Magazine: Volume I, January to June 1891
- Author
- NEWNES, GEORGE (ED)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Date Published
- 1891
- Size
- No dustwrapper
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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,...
- 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....
- 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....
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- 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...
- 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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