The Devin-Adair Co, 1950. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1950. No Edition Remarks. 191 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Blue cloth covered boards with silver lettering on spine and design to front. Signed with dedication from the author to Constantin Fitzgibbon on front free endpaper. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Small holes and scratches to front pastedown. Slight stains to pastedowns. Some slight creasing and mild tears to page edges. Occasional minor pencil marginalia. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Spine has two holes and frayed tears in cloth. A few liquid droplet marks to front.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1702456967ALK
Title: The Face & Mind of Ireland
Author: Arland Ussher
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: The Devin-Adair Co
Date Published: 1950

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Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
Marginalia: Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...