A Double-Barrelled Detective Story
by Mark Twain
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1902. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1902. No Edition Remarks. 247 pages. No dust jacket. Half bound ivory leather with marbled paper covered boards and gilt lettering to spine. Pages are heavily tanned and foxed throughout. Some thumb prints and other marks in places and some page corners folded. Pencil annotations to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners, crushing to spine ends and heavy rubbing and staining all over. Gilt lettering is dulled.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1693463841ALK
- Title
- A Double-Barrelled Detective Story
- Author
- Mark Twain
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Bernhard Tauchnitz
- Date Published
- 1902
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- Half Bound
- ...