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Plays and Puritans and Other Historical Essays
by Charles Kingsley
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No jacket
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Plays and Puritans and Other Historical Essays by Charles Kingsley Hardback, 1873, first edition, published by Macmillan and Co., London, 272 pages + 58-page publisher catalogue at rear.
Octavo/8vo, measures around 7 1/4" by 5 3/8" by 1 1/8". Brown cloth binding, gilt lettering to spine. Very worn, much marking and scuffing to binding, rubbing at edges and on hinges. Bumped corners. Book has slight forward tilt. Binding slack, cracking to inner hinges and strain to textblock, with a section of it from pages 65-80 partially detached. Page edges browned, scuffed and marked. Some unopened leaves. Marking to endpapers, previous owner bookplate to front pastedown. Some marking and light foxing to page surfaces but there does not appear to be any underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.
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- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-563
- Title
- Plays and Puritans and Other Historical Essays
- Author
- Charles Kingsley
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1873
- Pages
- 272+
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
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Biblio member since 2022
Inverness, Highland
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