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Hortense.
by Heimburg, W. [Wilhelm]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair./No Dust Jacket
- Seller
-
Miller Place, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally & Company, Publishers, 1891. Green cloth, blind and gilt-stamped cover and spine. Fair./No Dust Jacket. Pseudonym of Bertha Behrens. Translated from the German by Mary E. Almy. Edges well worn, front hinge broken, some leaves loosening. Top edge gilt. Alpha Library. 336 pages, reading copy only.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Monkey House Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2581
- Title
- Hortense.
- Author
- Heimburg, W. [Wilhelm]
- Format/Binding
- Green cloth, blind and gilt-stamped cover and spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair.
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Rand, McNally & Company, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Chicago and New York
- Date Published
- 1891
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Frank McDonald
Terms of Sale
Monkey House Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Monkey House Books
Biblio member since 2010
Miller Place, New York
About Monkey House Books
Monkey House Books is a mail order, used book dealer located on New York's Long Island. We offer quality used books in a variety of categories at reasonable prices. A home-based business managed by a lifelong bibliophile, Monkey House offers personalized assistance and friendly customer service. For the holidays, or anytime, we provide gift wrapping and recipient shipping upon request. We ship within 24 hours of receiving payment, and packages are wrapped and boxed using recycled/reused materials.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
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