Wings And The Child Or The Building Of Magic Cities
by Nesbit, E.:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Carlisle, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Hodder And Stoughton, London, 1913. xiv + 197pp + 43 b/w pictures by George Barraud and from photographs. Green cloth boards with lettering and design printed in black. Gilt titles on spine. Covers scuffed, corners little frayed. Spine ends creased and little frayed, hinges rubbed with some colour loss. Spine lettering faded. Front cover little bowed. Contents little shaken. Page edges and outer pages little foxed, top edge dusty. End papers browned. corner (1cm) of rear paste down lacking. Edges of 1 plate little frayed and soiled. 20x14cms.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Jane & John Kinnaird (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1932
- Title
- Wings And The Child Or The Building Of Magic Cities
- Author
- Nesbit, E.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder And Stoughton, London, 1913.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's;
Terms of Sale
Jane & John Kinnaird
Payment with order. Postage and insurance (insurance at our discretion) are extra. If the post is more than that quoted by Biblio we shall contact the customer to see if the extra cost is acceptable. If not as described a book may be returned within 10 days of receipt and a refund given. Please let us know before you return the book.
About the Seller
Jane & John Kinnaird
Biblio member since 2006
Carlisle
About Jane & John Kinnaird
Keswick Bookshop: We have a bookshop in Keswick in the English Lake District with antiquarian and secondhand books on most subjects and a selection of maps and prints.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...