Tom Brown's School-Days
by An Old Boy (Thomas Hughes)
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Macmillan, 1902. Hardcover. Good. 1902. Reprint. 308 pages. No dust jacket. Full navy leather binding with gilt lettering. School prize rebind with gilt logo to front. Marbled endpapers and text block edges. Illustrated by Arthur Hughes and Sydney P. Hall. B&W illustrations throughout. Clean pages. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Presentation plate to front paste down. Moderate wear, rubbing and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with large split to base of front joint. Notable tanning to spine, with scuffing and marking to boards.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1661423177ANA
- Title
- Tom Brown's School-Days
- Author
- An Old Boy (Thomas Hughes)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Date Published
- 1902
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...