A Day in Ancient Rome
by Shumway, Edgar S
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Chautauqua Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth boards, lightly so iled, with bright gilt medallion of the Colliseum. Illustrated. Tight square book, unmarked but for a few dots of foxing on endpapers. Boards are blindstamped along with the gilt and show only moderate shelfwear. ; 96 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- B-Line Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 58589
- Title
- A Day in Ancient Rome
- Author
- Shumway, Edgar S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Chautauqua Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1885
Terms of Sale
B-Line Books
Return: If the book is not as described, we will refund cost of book and shipping. If for any reason the buyer does not want the book, even though it is as described, we will offer a refund minus shipping both ways (within 14 days).
About the Seller
B-Line Books
Biblio member since 2003
Amherst, Nova Scotia
About B-Line Books
B-Line Books is an internet business operating from my large home in Amherst, Nova Scotia. I am a retired English teacher with a lifetime of gathered books for sale. Presently, about 24,000 books in 90 categories are listed with an emphasis in the humanities. I look for books I am interested in myself, and feel that most of the inventory is of high quality. See for yourself.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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...