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A Three-Legged Tour in Greece
by Ethel Smyth
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No jacket
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
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About This Item
A Three-Legged Tour in Greece by Ethel Smyth Hardback, 1927, first edition, illustrated, published by William Heinemann Ltd, London, 149 pages + x.
Octavo/8vo, measures around 8 3/8" by 5 3/4" by 1". No dust jacket. Orange cloth binding, gilt crest to front board, gilt lettering to spine. A little discolouration to spine and fading to lettering. Some scuffing and marking. Clear signs of rubbing, shelf-wear, especially at head and tail of spine where there is minor tearing. Slightly bumped corners. Book has forward tilt. Binding a little strained here and there but contents mostly firm and intact. Lower page edges deckled. Page edges browned, foxed, scuffed and a little marked. Previous owner name to front free endpaper. A little marking to preliminaries and hindmost pages, the odd bit of foxing elsewhere but no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.
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- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-465
- Title
- A Three-Legged Tour in Greece
- Author
- Ethel Smyth
- Format/Binding
- Hardback, cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Heinemann Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1927
- Pages
- x + 149
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Greece, Travel, History
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
GN Books and Prints
Biblio member since 2022
Inverness, Highland
About GN Books and Prints
Seller based in the Scottish Highlands, dealing in a variety of books, including antiquarian, vintage and modern.
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- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- 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...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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