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The Boys' Watchword or Syd and His Brothers
by Jennie Harrison
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good-
- Seller
-
Portland, Dorset, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Very rare copy of this popular boys' story. Undated, but school prize plate dated 1893 (8 years after 1st publication). Pictorial cloth boards with gilt title band to front board. Pictorial design to spine. Floral design to pastedowns. Frontispiece. 392pp + several pages of ads. CONDITION: boards worn and grubby (particularly back and spine). Dusting to edges. School gift plate to front pastedown, with corresponding making on ffep. Light tanning and foxing to prelims. Occasional age marks internally but text block mostly clean.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Real Book Shop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5360
- Title
- The Boys' Watchword or Syd and His Brothers
- Author
- Jennie Harrison
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John F. Shaw and Co.
- Place of Publication
- Paternoster Row, London
- Date Published
- 1893
- Pages
- 392
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian and Collectable; Collectable Children's;
Terms of Sale
The Real Book Shop
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About the Seller
The Real Book Shop
Biblio member since 2017
Portland, Dorset
About The Real Book Shop
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
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