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The Wouldbegoods - Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers
by E. Nesbit
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Ernest Benn Ltd, 1948. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1948. Second Impression. 383 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis and black and white illustrations throughout. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Ink marks to front endpaper and major water stains to rear endpaper and pastedown. Heavy ink marks and tanning to text block edges and both hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Boards have visible ink marks, foxing and rubbing with heavy bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and major sunning to spine. The book is forward leaning with sunning to boards.
Synopsis
Children are like jam: all very well in the proper place, but you can't stand them all over the shop - eh, what?'
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1647256867IEV
- Title
- The Wouldbegoods - Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers
- Author
- E. Nesbit
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Ernest Benn Ltd
- Date Published
- 1948
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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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....
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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