MANUAL for the USE OF THE LEGISLATURE of the STATE OF NEW YORK 1870
by (New York State) XX
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- GOOD to VG book. With 2 f/o plans of the Senate & Assembly.
- Seller
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Lyndonville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Albany: Weed Parsons. GOOD to VG book. With 2 f/o plans of the Senate & Assembly.. 1870. Hardcover. GOOD to VG book. Small 8vo, lxii,448pp. Full red leather. Gilt spine lettering "MANUAL 1870" and elaborate gilt floral design. . Front cover gilt stamped "H. Whalen Compliments of Chas. B Wright". All cover gilt quite bright. Cover extrems rubbed. Tight binding. Text block edges tinted a light red. First & last leaves, including the fold outs, lightly foxed. All other leaves bright, clear & free from any sort of stain. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003441
- Title
- MANUAL for the USE OF THE LEGISLATURE of the STATE OF NEW YORK 1870
- Author
- (New York State) XX
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - GOOD to VG book. With 2 f/o plans of the Senate & Assembly.
- Publisher
- Weed Parsons
- Place of Publication
- Albany
- Date Published
- 1870
- Keywords
- GOOD to VG book. Small 8vo, lxii,448pp. Full red leather. Gilt spine, lettering "MANUAL 1870" and elaborate gilt floral design., nonf (N)
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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....