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The Lure of the Limerick: An Uninhibited History
by Baring-Gould, William S
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
USA: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5?" - 6?" tall. Type: Hardback Fourth Printing Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition, without Jacket. 8.5"w"x 5.5"h. . 246 pp. Over five hundred examples, British and American, from many sources, wth delightful illustrations on almost all pages. Brown cloth gilt lettered on spine. Boards are clean, lightly scuffed along hinge and brown has been rubbed off a little on the upper and lower edges. Lightly scuffed at corners. Binding tight, book solid. Endpapers bright green. Upper and lower edges are foxed. Print is bsepia on cream paper with very clever sepia illustrations. 1967, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005120
- Title
- The Lure of the Limerick: An Uninhibited History
- Author
- Baring-Gould, William S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Clarkson N. Potter, Inc
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1967
- Size
- 16mo - over 5?" - 6?"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- LIMERICKS LITERATURE BEARDSLEY, AUBREY LEAR, EDWARD DOMIN, ANDRE
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- Edges
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- Cloth
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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