How to Know the Wild Flowers
by Mrs. William Starr Dana
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Buffalo, New York, United States
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About This Item
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894. 7th Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Marion Satterlee. Dark gray-blue cloth covered boards with arts-and-crafts style floral decoration and lettering in tan and white on front, and in gilt on spine. Light edgewear, minor soil, and bumped spine ends and corners. Light foxing to text block. Binding cracking in several places, although hinges are sound. Text clean. Interior lightly toned and foxed. B/w illustrations. Gift inscription to ffep. No stickers or stamps. Not ex-library.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Albion Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000889
- Title
- How to Know the Wild Flowers
- Author
- Mrs. William Starr Dana
- Illustrator
- Marion Satterlee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 7th Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Date Published
- 1894
- Pages
- 298
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" 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.
Glossary
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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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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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