London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1924. First Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. viii, 136pp., 8pp. (ads). Ex-library. No dust-jacket. Volume worn and admitting to soiling, though is still largely pleasant to hold. Additional exterior wear includes a number of small bumps and chips to extremities. Mild tanning to paper. A kind of moisture (perhaps from the glue used in the binding process) stain near gutter of several final leaves and front and back endpapers. Old library markings on front paste-down were blacked out with marker a long time ago. Short tear to front paste-down endpaper. Text clean. A good, sound reading copy

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Seller: Henry Stachyra, Bookseller (US)
Seller's Inventory #: 037274
Title: A Book of Acrostics
Author: Knox, Ronald
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fair
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Methuen & Co. Ltd.
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1924
Size: 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾
Keywords: Ronald A. Knox British Christian Authors
Bookseller catalogs: Literature/Fiction/Poetry; Belloc/Chesterton/Knox;

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Welcome to Henry Stachyra, Bookseller. We are a family owned business, specializing in scholarly used, out-of-print and rare books. We bring 18 years of experience to buying and selling second-hand books. Our primary specialties are theology and philosophy, medieval studies and patristics. However, we also sell books in many other categories, especially scholarly.

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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.
Reading Copy: Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
Leaves: Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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...
Bumps: Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
Paste-down: The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...