In a Canadian Canoe ; The Nine Muses Minus One and Other Stories
by Barry Pain
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Henry And Co, 1891. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1891. No Edition Remarks. 210 pages. No dust jacket. Dark red cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis. Heavy tanning to pages with slight dog-eared pages throughout. Major tanning to text block edges and both hinges are cracked with exposed netting. There is cracks to guttering with exposed netting and binding is loose. Major foxing to frontis cover as well. Boards have distinctive rubbing and sticky residue to front. Heavier bumping to corners and fair crushing to spine ends with heavy rubbing to spine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1628597228BDO
- Title
- In a Canadian Canoe ; The Nine Muses Minus One and Other Stories
- Author
- Barry Pain
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Henry And Co
- Date Published
- 1891
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Glossary
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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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....