Old Colonial By-Ways
by Ure Smith, Sydney (Illustrated by) and Bertie, Charles H. (Described by)
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Clarence Park, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
(Sydney: Art in Australia: 1928) First Edition Pictorial wrappers pp. ii, 27 (text, plus a woodcut on p. 27) plus 55 plates, those in colour tipped in (252 x 192 mm) First Edition. Endpapers and edges foxed and scattered foxing to margins and blank areas of leaves throughout but illustrated not affected, and apart from that about fine.
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About the Seller
exPB
Biblio member since 2017
Clarence Park, South Australia
About exPB
I am the daughter of Pioneer Books, our business has closed down after 43 years and I am listing some of it on my own account now that I'm the proud owner of the residual stock! I am selling them at half the price at which they were listed when Pioneer Books existed.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
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