Canterbury
by Shore, W. Teignmouth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1907 Book. Illus. by W. Biscombe Gardner. Very Good +. Hardcover. First Edition. Large Octavo. Large 8vo. xi (v), 122 (6) pp, 20 tissue-protected color illus. and a Pristine fold-out map after p. 122. Foxing to bottom and fore- text block, and a small number of bottom fore-edge page margins, and lightly age-toned endpapers, else, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 6.75" x 9.25". Blue cloth with stamped borders, gilt cathedrals bordering and lettering on front board, gilt lettering to spine, and gilt top text block. In Mylar protector..
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Details
- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006578
- Title
- Canterbury
- Author
- Shore, W. Teignmouth
- Illustrator
- W. Biscombe Gardner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Adam & Charles Black
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1907
- Keywords
- BRITISH HISTORY & TRAVEL CITIES CANTERBURY
- Bookseller catalogs
- BRITISH HISTORY;
- Size
- Large Octavo
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
West Side Book Shop, Located in downtown Ann Arbor, was established in 1975 by Jay Platt, a member of the ABAA. West Side Book Shop offers a wide selection of used and rare books.
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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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....