Antoinette Sterling and Other Celebrities. Stories and Impressions of Artistic Circles
by Mackinlay, M. Sterling
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
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About This Item
United Kingdom: Hutchinson & Co.. Fair. 1906. Hardcover. READING COPY ONLY - A Fair hardcover without dustjacket. Book is in very rubbed brown cloth-covered boards, bumped and rubbed to the spine ends, corners and all edges, with small losses to the fabric at the spine heel. Front hinge is cracked but secure, the remains of a book plate on the front pastedown, one plate disbound (Adelina Patti), cream pages, occasionally heavily foxed - still a useful copy. Carefully packaged and posted within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland. .
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- Bookseller
- The Old Bookshelf
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13807
- Title
- Antoinette Sterling and Other Celebrities. Stories and Impressions of Artistic Circles
- Author
- Mackinlay, M. Sterling
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- Hutchinson & Co.
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1906
- Keywords
- Biography
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- Entertainers;
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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....
- 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,...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Reading Copy
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