The Christian: A Story
by Hall Caine
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
William Heinemann, 1897. Hardcover. Good. 1897. First Edition. 453 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Front endpaper missing. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's name to front paste down and title page. Some gutter cracking. Pages are rough cut. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Notable tanning to spine. Book has a forward lean.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1684227432IEV
- Title
- The Christian: A Story
- Author
- Hall Caine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Date Published
- 1897
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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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...
- Spine
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- First Edition
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.