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Country Pastimes for Boys
by Graham, P. Anderson
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Dustjacket
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
London / New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1895. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. London / New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1895. Very Good+/no dust jacket . Dark blue and white decorated boards, with gold title box on cover and spine, lovely fishes decoration on spine. Light soiling to cloth boards (a few very small faint spots),very slight rubbing to cover design at edges. No fraying or wear-through to cloth. Binding is tight, hinges are sound - no cracking. Clean black endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. Pages are clean and bright, with gilt page edges. Frontis illustration of boy carrying owl with tissue guard. 252 illustrations. 448 pages with index..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027034
- Title
- Country Pastimes for Boys
- Author
- Graham, P. Anderson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dustjacket
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green, and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London / New York
- Date Published
- 1895
- Keywords
- BOYS, NATURE, COUNTRY LIVING, RURAL LIFE, WOODCRAFT, P. ANDERSON GRAHAM, FIRST EDITION, DECORATED AMERICAN TRADE BINDING, DATB
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nature; Children's;
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
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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...
- 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"...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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...
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