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The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work Traffic, and War
by Ruskin, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
The Waverley Book Company , n.d. . Hardback. . 12mo green cloth with gilt titles/decoration on spine. Top edge gilt. Ribbon page marker. Green marbled endpapers. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. VG++ hardback book, no dustwrapper. Text clean and unmarked. An exceptionally bright and tight copy. Neat ink ownership inscription on half title otherwise clean and unmarked.
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Details
- Bookseller
- High Barn Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22448
- Title
- The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work Traffic, and War
- Author
- Ruskin, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardback.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Waverley Book Company
- Date Published
- n.d.
- Pages
- 134 pp
Terms of Sale
High Barn Books
Payment can be made by Paypal or sterling cheques drawn on UK banks. Books can be returned within 7 days of receipt by prior arrangement with seller.
About the Seller
High Barn Books
Biblio member since 2003
Lancaster, Lancashire
About High Barn Books
Small independent bookseller based in Lancashire UK.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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