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Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses.
by Adelaide Anne Procter
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Oswestry, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
George Bell and Sons, 1895. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. Ida Lovering. New edition hardback with additional poems, introduction by Charles Dickens and illustrations by Ida Lovering, 1895, with no jacket as published. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of handling and storage - original dark blue faux leather covers, with bright gilt titles to spine and front panel, are particularly clean and crisp. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations - minor inscription in pencil to half-title page; gilt page-ends remain bright, tanning to prelims and a little minor spotting here and there, but text, decorated endpapers and illustrations clean and clear throughout. Retains tissue-paper guard to frontispiece. Not an old library book. Photograph available.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hall of Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 130196
- Title
- Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses.
- Author
- Adelaide Anne Procter
- Illustrator
- Ida Lovering
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Bell and Sons
- Date Published
- 1895
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Antiquarian Books;
Terms of Sale
Hall of Books
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About the Seller
Hall of Books
Biblio member since 2020
Oswestry, Shropshire
About Hall of Books
We sell secondhand books and sheet music online and offer an eclectic (perhaps eccentric!) selection ranging from modern first edition hardbacks and quality paperbacks to the interesting, unusual and rare; the hard-to-find, collectable and out-of-print....and a lot more in between! We do our best to describe and photograph our books and music accurately, and to package them securely when they sell. We do not rely on stock images. If you need more information on a particular item, or if we have not yet uploaded a photograph for a particular listing, please contact us and we will respond by return.
Glossary
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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....
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
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