Fifield, 1913. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1913. No Edition Remarks. 313 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with a photographic black and white frontis. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper with rough cut edges to text block. Slight dog-eared pages throughout and cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Boards have visible sunning and rubbing with moderate bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and heavier rubbing and sunning to spine.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1647263738BMH
Title: The Humour of Homer and Other Essays.
Author: Samuel Butler
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Fifield
Date Published: 1913

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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....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
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....
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...