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Through the Magic Door
by Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd, London, 1907. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/No Dust Jacket. 16 publisher's advertisements (dated November, 1907) Red coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Bumping and rubbing to the head and to the heel of the backstrip and to the book corners. Wearing to both the top and bottom book edges. Fading, stains and marks to the cloth of the book. Browning and foxing to the text block edges. Fading to the backstrip. Browning and faint foxing marks to the endpapers and age toning to the internal text. In this book Sir Arthur Condan Doyle takes the reader through the Magic door -- into books and reading. Essays on Scott, Johnson, Pepys, Hawthorne, Samuel and Richardson. Frontispiece photograph with tissue guard & 15 other photographs and art pieces Size: 12mo (Small Hardcover). 274 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; Books About Books; Inventory No: 0266265. .
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0266265
- Title
- Through the Magic Door
- Author
- Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Edition Unstated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1907
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Book about Books, Reading -- Enjoyment Essays & Literary Criticism; Books About Books; Unbranded Doyle, Arthur Conan Through the Magic Door
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books about Books;
Terms of Sale
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
transaction in Australian $'s for checks and money orders.If the book is not as described, return within 14 days, for a refund of the cost of the book.
We are registered for GST and goods sold to an Australian delivery address will include GST. Our ABN 15 100 960 047
About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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- 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....
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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