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The Organ of the Ancients: From Eastern Sources (Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic)
by Farmer, Henry George and Canon F.W. Galpin (forward)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London, UK: William Reeves Bookseller Ltd, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (9"x6"). Navy cloth-covered boards with giltstamped title to spine. Color frontis. B&W illustrations. Spotting to upper joint & fore-edge. Light creasing from head to tail of the upper cover cloth. Tail corners bumped. First/last pages & textblock edges foxed. Missing dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Downtown Books & News
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3620
- Title
- The Organ of the Ancients: From Eastern Sources (Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic)
- Author
- Farmer, Henry George and Canon F.W. Galpin (forward)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- William Reeves Bookseller Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1931
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music;
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About the Seller
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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