Half Hours with the Best Authors; with Short Biographical and Critical Notes (Complete in 4 Volumes)
by Knight, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Topeka, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Argyle Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. N.D.. Hardcover. Red Cloth with gilt design & lettering on spine. Slight even sun fade to spines of all volumes. Very light corner rubs to all volumes. Minor shelf dent to head & tail of spines. All volumes have bright gold gilt to tops of pages. All volumes have tissue paper intact protecting frontispiece. A few very small age spots to end papers. All volumes have very tight, clean pages. Vol 1 - 583 pp. Frontispiece is Sir Walter Scott. Vol 2 - 622 pp with index. Frontispiece is Charles Dickens. Vol 3 - 611 pp with index. Frontispiece is William Makepeace Thackeray. Vol 4 - 620 pp with index. Frontispiece is Lord Byron. All chapters are headed with small black & white illustration of author. This set is extremely nice & appears unread. Extra postage required for this and all sets. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Oddfellow's Fine Books and Col (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3700
- Title
- Half Hours with the Best Authors; with Short Biographical and Critical Notes (Complete in 4 Volumes)
- Author
- Knight, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Argyle Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- N.D.
- Keywords
- "set, Classics, Literature, Antiquarian Fiction"
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Oddfellow's Fine Books and Col
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About the Seller
Oddfellow's Fine Books and Col
Biblio member since 2014
Topeka, Kansas
About Oddfellow's Fine Books and Col
We sell antiquarian and gently used books specializing in all things Kansas. We also offer a large selection of books for children, vintage young adult & series books; Agriculture; Psychology; Militaria and Western Americana.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...