BLUE-GRASS AND RHODODENDRON: Out-doors in Old Kentucky
by Fox, John, Jr
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. 294 pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ titles in gilt. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed; corners bumped w/ light fraying to spine ends. Top edge gilt. Previous owner's name on front blank endpaper. Light scattered foxing. Small stains to outer margins of leaves 63 through 66, not affecting any text; staining to leaves 74 through 79. Few leaves roughly opened. Illust. w/ 20 b/w plates, and b/w drawings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24295KY
- Title
- BLUE-GRASS AND RHODODENDRON: Out-doors in Old Kentucky
- Author
- Fox, John, Jr
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1901
- Keywords
- AMERICANA KENTUCKY STATE HISTORY KY DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS OUTDOORS RECREATION AMERICAN HISTORY UNITED STATES NONFICTION GENERAL ILLUSTRATED
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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About the Seller
Shoemaker Booksellers
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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...
- 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....
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.