Horace and His Poetry
by J. B. Chapman
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
-
STILLWATER, Minnesota, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1913. First Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 141pp., (ii). With frontispiece. Volume very slightly bowed and just a little cocked. Several small bumps to extremities of volume, with some general light wear to exterior, including several tiny worn through areas at extremities. Book label to front paste-down. Mild foxing and a touch of soiling to interior. No writing to text and binding firm. Gilt lettering to spine and front cover remains clear and bright. Overall, a good, clean, sound, user friendly copy
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Details
- Bookseller
- Henry Stachyra, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027268
- Title
- Horace and His Poetry
- Author
- J. B. Chapman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- George G. Harrap & Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1913
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature/Fiction/Poetry; Greco-Roman;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Henry Stachyra, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2008
STILLWATER, Minnesota
About Henry Stachyra, Bookseller
Welcome to Henry Stachyra, Bookseller. We are a family owned business, specializing in scholarly used, out-of-print and rare books. We bring 18 years of experience to buying and selling second-hand books. Our primary specialties are theology and philosophy, medieval studies and patristics. However, we also sell books in many other categories, especially scholarly.
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- 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...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- 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....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
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