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Ursula Vivian; The Sister-Mother
by Swan, Annie S. (Mrs Burnett Smith)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, Edinburgh and London, 1894. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Illustrated. (7) 8-256 pages. Illustrated endpapers -- being an abstract design in very pale olive and white. The text is illustrated with six black-and-white illustrations -- in the steel etched style, illustrator not credited. Blue coloured cloth covered boards with gilt band across the top of the front board and backstrip, a floral design (a branch and leaves) which starts at the backstrip in the gilt portion, goes to the front board and then flows down the front. A floral design in black and lighter blue to the left-hand portion of the front panel and there is a small gilt strip with blue floral design to the lower front edge and lower extra edge. Bumping, rubbing and very slight fraying to the backstrip edges and corners. The underlying board is visible to the book corners. Rubbing and fading to the book edges and to the book panels. The backstrip has become quite faded and rubbed. Browning and foxing to the text block edge. The free front end paper is missing. Browning, handling marks and some foxing marks to the internal text. The book also has been over opened and the underlying webbing can be seen between pages 128 and 129, 160 and 161 and 192 and 193. A melodrama from the 19th century. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; 19th Century; Inventory No: 0110807. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0110807
- Title
- Ursula Vivian; The Sister-Mother
- Author
- Swan, Annie S. (Mrs Burnett Smith)
- Illustrator
- Illustrated
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh and London
- Date Published
- 1894
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Novel -- 19th Century -- Melodrama Fiction; 19th Century; Illustrated Unbranded Swan, Annie S. (Mrs Burnett Smith) Ursula Vivian; The Sister-Mother
- Bookseller catalogs
- 19th Century;
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
Glossary
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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....
- Jacket
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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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