Gardens Near the Sea: The Making and Care of Gardens on or near the Coast with Reference also to Lawns and Grounds and to Trees and Shrubbery
by Alice Lounsberry
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- G+ (Good Plus)/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Buffalo, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1910. 1st Edition . Hardcover. G+ (Good Plus)/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. H. W. Faulkner. No additional printings stated. Green pictorial cloth covered boards with gilt lettering; light edgewear, rubbing and soil; spine is moderately foxed and a little concave; a few minor dents; lightly bumped spine ends and corners. Moderately rubbed text block. Binding somewhat tender and cracking in places. Text clean. Interior lightly toned. Ffep creased. Eight full-page color plates from paintings and photographs + 64 full-page b/w illustrations from photographs. No previous owner names, stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. Indexed.
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- Bookseller
- Albion Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001039
- Title
- Gardens Near the Sea: The Making and Care of Gardens on or near the Coast with Reference also to Lawns and Grounds and to Trees and Shrubbery
- Author
- Alice Lounsberry
- Illustrator
- H. W. Faulkner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - G+ (Good Plus)
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Frederick A. Stokes Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1910
- Pages
- 274
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Albion Books
Biblio member since 2021
Buffalo, New York
About Albion Books
Albion Books deals in fine used, out of print and rare books on a wide variety of topics. Specialties include Buffalo/New York history, science, religion, occult, and foreign language. The proprietor has been in the antiquarian book business since 2006.
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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....
- Jacket
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- G+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good. Good is defined as "describes the average used and worn book...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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