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Wild Life in a Southern County
de Jefferies, Richard
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good -
- Librería
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1881. Hardcover. Very Good -. New Edition. xii, 387, [1] p.; 20 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and front cover decoration. Black-stamped decoration on front board with same blind-stamped on back board. Dark brown endpapers. Title vignette of the anemone leaf drawn by the author and used by the publisher after 1880 in Jefferies' works. A collection of essays originally published in the Pall Mall Gazette by the nature writer Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) about Coate and the Marlborough Downs area of England, now part of the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. A few unopened pages. A wonderful picture of both the natural world and rural English life in the mid-19th century. In Very Good- Condition: edges are rubbed with minor loss at tail of spine; head of spine just starting to fray; boards are slightly discolored; front hinge a little loose; pages are clean.
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- Librería
- Classic Books and Ephemera
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 003304
- Título
- Wild Life in a Southern County
- Autor
- Jefferies, Richard
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good -
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Smith, Elder, & Co
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1881
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Travel & Exploration; Gardening & Nature;
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Classic Books and Ephemera
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
