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The Joy of the Ground
by Marion Cran
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
Item Price
€23.79€17.84
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About This Item
The Joy of the Ground by Marion Cran.
Hardback, 1929, second print, illustrated, published by Herbert Jenkins Limited, London, 320 pages.
Octavo/8vo, measures around 8 3/4" by 5 3/4" by 1 5/8". Dust jacket is tattered, with tearing and chipping at edges, marking and scuffing. Green cloth binding, black lettering and edging to front board and spine, quite clean. Binding firm. Page edges browned, a little foxed and scuffed. The front free endpaper has been removed. Some marking to endpapers but otherwise page surfaces clean, no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.
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Details
- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-221
- Title
- The Joy of the Ground
- Author
- Marion Cran
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Herbert Jenkins Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1929
- Pages
- 320
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Gardening
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
GN Books and Prints
Biblio member since 2022
Inverness, Highland
About GN Books and Prints
Seller based in the Scottish Highlands, dealing in a variety of books, including antiquarian, vintage and modern.
Glossary
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- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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