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Electricity as a Medicine, and Its Mode of Application
by Ives, John
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: John T. Ives, 1879. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Presumed first edition, 1879, hardcover with gilt and black stamped orange cloth boards, octavo, 123pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book VG with soil and mild shelfwear to boards and spine, binding tight, previous owner Olgierd Lindan's signature to front pastedown, otherwise text toned throughout and showing faint foxing, Lindan's initials to edges of text block. No DJ. From Lindan's famous collection of quackery.
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- Bookseller
- Common Crow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B39202
- Title
- Electricity as a Medicine, and Its Mode of Application
- Author
- Ives, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- John T. Ives
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1879
- Keywords
- Medicine
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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