London; Hodder & Stoughton, 1914., 1914. Hardcover. Reprint. Quarto. 123 pp. 16 colour plates tipped-in, including frontispiece with captioned tissue guard; vignette to title page plus numerous black-and-white illustrations throughout, all by W Heath Robinson. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: Good. Publisher's decorative blue cloth with gilt titles and green stylised rosebush-and-crown motif to spine and upper board; gilt-stamped crest of Auckland Girls' School to lower board. Unclipped grey dust-jacket with gilt titles and colour cover plate (matches plate facing pp 36). Boards bumped at corners and a little rubbed to edge but bright. Jacket lightly surface soiled with stain to rear fold; rubbed with wear at corners, 1-inch split at lower front fold and small loss head/tail of spine. Printed school prize plate to front pastedown with name of recipient Phyllis Nicholson and Prize for Hygiene handwritten in the appropriate places and dated 1920. Sporadic foxing throughout and free endpapers toned; colour plates all clean and uncreased. Rare in jacket.

Avaliações

(Entrar ou Criar uma conta primeiro!)

Detalhes

Livreiro: Keel Row Books (GB)
Nº do estoque do livreiro: 4082
Título: A Song of the English
Autor: Kipling, Rudyard
Formato/Encadernação: Capa dura
Estado do livro: Usado
Editorial: London; Hodder & Stoughton, 1914.
Data de publicação: 1914
Palavras-chave: Illustrated

Termos da venda

Keel Row Books

All items are guaranteed to be as described. If you're unhappy with your purchase for any reason, we offer a no-quibble money back guarantee. Items must be returned in the condition in which they were sent (unless they were damaged in the post). If you wish to return an item, please let us know within a fortnight of receiving your order. You can let us know by calling or emailing us. Returned items must be dispatched to us within a month of you receiving the order. Upon receipt of the returned item, we will issue a full refund including your original postage cost. If the book was inaccurately described, we will also refund the return postage. Our return postage refunds are limited to an amount equal to what you paid us in the first instance for the outward postage.

Sobre o Vendedor

Keel Row Books

Este vendedor ganhou uma avaliação de 5 de 5 estrelas de Biblio clientes.

Membro de Biblio desde 2019

Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear

Faça uma pergunta ao vendedor

Sobre Keel Row Books

Keel Row Books is Tyneside's leading bookshop for collectable, antiquarian and second-hand books.Formerly of North Shields we are now in newly renovated double-fronted shop in the middle of Whitley Bay. Open Mon to Sat 10-5.
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA

Glossário

Glossário

Alguns termos que podem ser usados ??nesta descrição incluem:

Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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...
Vignette: A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
Soiled: Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
Quarto: The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...

Este site usa cookies.