The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond
by Thackerary, William Makepeace
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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North Tonawanda, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Wells Gardner, Darton and Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1902. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with minor edgewear and soil, sun-faded spine, and bumped spine ends. Binding shaken and cracked in several places including front hinge. Gilt topped text block bright. Interior lightly toned, with offsetting to title page and frontis, and scattered light foxing. B/w illustrations. Previous owner name to second blank. No stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 201 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Old Editions Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8281
- Title
- The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond
- Author
- Thackerary, William Makepeace
- Illustrator
- Hugh Thomson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- Wells Gardner, Darton and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1902
- Keywords
- Children's Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Literature;
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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...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- 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....
- 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,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
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