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Victorian Yellowbacks & Paperbacks, 1849-1905, Vol VI
by Topp, Chester W
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/F
- ISBN 10
- 0963392050
- ISBN 13
- 9780963392053
- Seller
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About This Item
HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? ISBN:- 978-0963392053, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Imp: 1st. Limited to 500 copies.* Date of Publication: 2003* Publisher: Hermitage Antiquarian Bookshop.* Binding and cover condition: Crimson lake cloth, gilt title & decorative borders to spine & face. No bumps or rubs, no shelf wear. FINE, AS NEW.* Jacket condition: Text illustrated matt dust wrapper, red and blue titles to spine and face with blue decorative frame on speckled cream ground. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, but showing no shelf price. No shelf wear. In original un-opened, publishers clear plastic wrap. FINE, AS NEW.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no marks to top or fore-edge, no visible faults. FINE, AS NEW.* Illustrations: (Four b/w photos and one block of 32pp. of colour photos.)* Pages: [414] pp. text.* Description: This is the sixth volume of a scholarly work and series of bibliographies of publishers operating during the Victorian era. The publishers covered are Longmans, Green & Co - C H Clarke - John Maxwell & Co - Tinsley Bros; Dr. Chester W.Topp is an emeritus professor of mathematics from Cleveland State University. His interest in Anthony Trollope first editions led on to a consuming passion for acquiring yellowbacks and paperbacks from the Victorian period and his collection forms the basis for the nine volume series of which this is the sixth volume.* A FINE, AS NEW, text copy of the 1st/1st with no visible faults in a FINE jacket protected in clear plastic wrap.* NB Number of pages and illustrations cannot be confirmed because the publishers wrapper has not been opened.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3512
- Title
- Victorian Yellowbacks & Paperbacks, 1849-1905, Vol VI
- Author
- Topp, Chester W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/F
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0963392050
- ISBN 13
- 9780963392053
- Publisher
- Hermitage Antiquarian Bookshop
- Place of Publication
- Denver, Colorado, USA. 414
- Date Published
- 2003-01-01
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