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Platform Echoes ; or, Leaves from My Note-Book of Forty Years : Illustrated by Anecdotes, Incidents, Personal Experiences, Facts and Stories Drawn from the Humour and Pathos of Life
by John B. Gough
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Hodder & Stoughton, 1891. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1891. No Edition Remarks. 422 pages. No dust jacket. Illustrated red cloth with prize plate to front pastedown. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Major tanning to text block edges and cracking to the front hinge. Boards have heavy tanning and moderate bumping to corners with noticeable crushing to spine ends. Distinctive tanning to spine as well as small sticker to the rear.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1607698141EWY
- Title
- Platform Echoes ; or, Leaves from My Note-Book of Forty Years : Illustrated by Anecdotes, Incidents, Personal Experiences, Facts and Stories Drawn from the Humour and Pathos of Life
- Author
- John B. Gough
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Date Published
- 1891
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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.,...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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