Wykehamica
by ADAMS, H.C
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
James Parker & Co, 1878. Hardback. First edition, 1878. Condition: Acceptable. Burgundy cloth binding, gilt lettering on back strip. No dust jacket. Backstrip sunned, pages roughly cut. Age-toned, text clean. Binding quite loose. Front end page & few pages detached. Inscription on front page. Published: James Parker and Co, 1878.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roy Turner Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5830
- Title
- Wykehamica
- Author
- ADAMS, H.C
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- James Parker & Co
- Date Published
- 1878
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Roy Turner Books
Biblio member since 2017
Stockport, Cheshire
About Roy Turner Books
With more than thirty years' experience of collecting literary first editions, I specialise in the areas of both contemporary and earlier fiction, poetry, drama and children's books with particular emphases on signed modern firsts, authors' first and early published books, American and Irish literature and literary prize-winning writers.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...