Walter Scoot, 1884. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1884. First Edition. 304 pages. No dust jacket. Decorated brown cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Occasional thumb-marking present. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Cracking to hinges with exposed binding, causing rear board to be slightly loose. Light scuffing to text-block edges. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Crushing to spine ends with small splits and fraying to cloth. Notable tanning to spine and edges. Dark brown marking to boards. Scuffing along spine joints.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1627974571LSA
Title: The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Lonfellow
Author: Eva Hope
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Walter Scoot
Date Published: 1884

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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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....
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...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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...
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.