Cassell & Company Limited, 1912. Hardcover. Good. 1912. No Edition Remarks. 249 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards. Black and white photographic plates throughout and similar frontispiece with tissue guard. Gilt lettering on spine. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing mainly to frontispiece and tissue guard. Cracking to rear hinge and some gutters with netting exposed. Binding slightly slack. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners, crushing to spine ends and rubbing and staining all over. Spine sunned and tanned with a significant stain and gilt lettering is dulled.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1693201102ALK
Title: Nature's Carol Singers
Author: Richard Kearton
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Cassell & Company Limited
Date Published: 1912

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Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
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....
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...