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All on the Irish Shore: Irish Sketches
by E. OE. Somerville; Martin Ross
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
Item Price
€29.74€22.30
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About This Item
All on the Irish Shore: Irish Sketches by E OE Somerville and Martin Ross.
Hardback, 1903, third impression, published by Longmans, Green, and Co., London.
Cloth boards and spine, pictorial front board. Gilt lettering and detail to front board and spine. Some fading to spine with a tear at top. Boards are scuffed and a little marked but have retained much of their colouring. Signs of rubbing and shelf-wear. Binding reasonably firm, hinges intact. Page edges browned and foxed. Previous owner name in pencil to FFEP and title page. Foxing to endpapers and a little throughout the book but otherwise page surfaces are quite clean, odd marks here and there but no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.
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Details
- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-167
- Title
- All on the Irish Shore: Irish Sketches
- Author
- E. OE. Somerville; Martin Ross
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third Impression
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green, and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
GN Books and Prints
Biblio member since 2022
Inverness, Highland
About GN Books and Prints
Seller based in the Scottish Highlands, dealing in a variety of books, including antiquarian, vintage and modern.
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....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
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