An Old Sweetheart of Mine
by Riley, James Whitcomb
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1902. Later printing. HC w DJ. MV VG/Good. Green cloth, bright gilt titling, color decorations, portrait of female to front, light edgewear, decorated endpapers, two ink inscriptions to first blank leaves (dated 9/2/98 and 12/25/09), hinge cracked in middle. Scarce in DJ, heavy chipping w some loss, in protector. Illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy. Decorations by Virginia Keep. PLEASE NOTE: We are happy to provide photos. Please contact us for any specific requests. BUYING AND SELLING USED AND RARE BOOKS FROM HISTORIC EAST NASHVILLE SINCE 2012.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Refuge Books: Used & Rare (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 200031
- Title
- An Old Sweetheart of Mine
- Author
- Riley, James Whitcomb
- Format/Binding
- HC w DJ
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Later printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1902
- Pages
- No pagination
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Refuge Books: Used & Rare
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Nashville, Tennessee
About Refuge Books: Used & Rare
Refuge Books: Used & Rare. Buying and selling books in historic east Nashville, TN since 2012. Specializing in history, biography, Civil War, books on books, theology, Louisiana, the Inklings, G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy Sayers, Wendell Berry, Flannery O'Connor, George Macdonald, Thomas Mann, Madeleine L'Engle, and Frederick Buechner. We welcome any and all inquiries.Instagram: @refugebooks
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...