The Bitter South.
by Frank T Bullen:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Robert Culley, no date [1909]. No edition stated, but presumed first edition (hardback). 12mo (20cm by 13cm), 294pp, 2pp adverts. 12 b&w plates by Arthur Twidle. Original illustrated red cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine, top edge gilt. Foxing to the preliminary pages and the edges of the text block, binding bright; overall, this book is in good to very good condition. JISC estimates a publication date of 1909, and this copy has an ownership inscription dated Sept 1909.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cornell Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 74563
- Title
- The Bitter South.
- Author
- Frank T Bullen:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Robert Culley, no date [1909].
Terms of Sale
Cornell Books Limited
Returns accepted for any reason, provided that you notify us within 7 days of receipt. The customer is responsible for paying return shipping unless the book was not as described.
About the Seller
Cornell Books Limited
Biblio member since 2005
Tewkesbury
About Cornell Books Limited
We are a medium-sized bookshop located in a small country town in the west of England. The shop is open for business from 1030 to 1700 Monday to Saturday. The building is a fifteenth-century former public house. We are still awaiting the day when we find a book older than the shop itself!
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
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