Look Back with Love: A Recollection of the Blue Ridge
by Hannum, Alberta Pierson
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Vanguard Press, 1969 Good/Good. Large Octavo. 205 pages. With 12 pages of photos. Signed by author on half-title. Blue cloth with gilt and blue lettering; blue tops, blue end sheets. Light wear to head and tail of spine; lower corner of front board bumped; spine and edges of boards sunned; previous owner's name on front end sheet. Minor wear to ends of jacket hinges, except for upper rear flap hinge where there's a one-inch tear. Text is clean and binding is tight..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 998313
- Title
- Look Back with Love: A Recollection of the Blue Ridge
- Author
- Hannum, Alberta Pierson
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: Vanguard Press, 1969
- Keywords
- APPALACHIA, BLUE RIDGE, SMOKIES
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
All books are subject to prior sale, though we make every effort to keep our inventory current. Books are returnable within ten days with prior notification. We will request extra shipping for large books and sets going to addresses outside the United States.
About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...