Old Days in Chapel Hill: Being the Life and Letters of Cornelia Phillips Spencer
by Chamberlain, Hope Summerell
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable
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About This Item
University of North Carolina Press, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. This is a first edition and not a facsimile of the 1926 printing. Dark blue cloth boards. Gilt lettering on front board and on spine. Boards are faded and have stains on front. No dust jacket. Dented corner dented corner tips and at top and bottom of the spine. Deckled pages. Foxing on text block, more significantly at the bottom edge. Top of text block appears to have been gilt at one point, now darkened and foxed. Large foxing/stains on the front end papers and title page. All pages are fragile due to age, and are yellowed with browning on outer edges of the pages. Binding is in decent shape; pages remain intact and attached. Readable copy, although care is advised when reading. Pen and ink drawings by the author throughout. Black and white photograph of Cornelia Phillips Spencer on frontispiece. 325 pages.
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- Title
- Old Days in Chapel Hill: Being the Life and Letters of Cornelia Phillips Spencer
- Author
- Chamberlain, Hope Summerell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press
- Date Published
- 1926
- Weight
- 1.19 lbs
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- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Facsimile
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- Text Block
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- Jacket
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- 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....
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