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Tom Brown's School Days
by HUGHES, Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York. Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers. N.d.. Hardcover. 18cm, (xv)418p., title page vignette, text sketch illustrations, prize binding in full polished blue calf, gilt decorated raised bands, gilt borders and decorations in the panels, crushed orange morocco label, gilt ruled borders & school crest on the upper cover, marbled endpapers and edges, presentation bookplate plate, fine signed bindings: "bound by Birdsall, Northampton & London". An American reprint of the sixth English edition. Very attractively bound as a prize copy for Ashbury College, Ottawa with presentation dated 1926. Bindings signed by Birdsall, Northampton & London.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32608
- Title
- Tom Brown's School Days
- Author
- HUGHES, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- New York. Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers. N.d.
- Keywords
- ENGLISH LITERATURE HUGHES SCHOOL PRIZE COPY SIGNED FINE BINDINGS BIRDSALL
Terms of Sale
Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)
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About the Seller
Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)
Biblio member since 2006
Ottawa, Ontario
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
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