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Music and Life
by W.J. Turner
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Methuen & Co Ltd, 1921. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1921. First Edition. 213 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Small plate to front pastedown with pen inscription. Occasional thumb-marking present. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Crushing to spine ends with small splits and fraying to cloth. White stained marking to boards. Minor dark marking to rear board. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Book is slightly forward leaning.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1642535140GST
- Title
- Music and Life
- Author
- W.J. Turner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Methuen & Co Ltd
- Date Published
- 1921
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
World of Rare Books
Biblio member since 2009
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
About World of Rare Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
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