George Newnes, 1902. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1902. No Edition Remarks. 126 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Book has been rebound. Ex-libris plate stuck to front pastedown. No advertisements to rear. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Binding is slightly loose, however pages remain attached. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Some tanning to spine and edges. Dents to edges. Brown and white marks overall.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1669979423TMB
Title: Uncle Bernac: A Memory of the Empire
Author: A. Conan Doyle
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: George Newnes
Date Published: 1902

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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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...
Rebound: A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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....
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
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...