Ben Owen - A Lancashire Story
by Jennie Perrett
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Elliot Stock, 1879. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1879. New Edition. 132 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Front free endpaper is removed. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Thumb-marking present. Grubby pages throughout. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to front hinge and gutters, leaving netting exposed. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Some crushing to spine ends. Visible tanning to spine and edges. Brown marks to boards. Textblock is shaky. Book has a visible forward lean.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1660034495BPG
- Title
- Ben Owen - A Lancashire Story
- Author
- Jennie Perrett
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Elliot Stock
- Date Published
- 1879
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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...