Sacred Fount
by James, Henry
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good (No Dust Jacket)
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. First edition. Cloth. Good (No Dust Jacket). First issue. 8vo, 319 pp. Spine creased and cocked with a few small stains, chipping and fraying at head and heel; corners of boards bumped, sunning and a few small stains to covers, page edges tanned, previous owner name on front free endpaper, front hinge cracked, first few leaves detached and laid in.
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- Bookseller
- ANTHOLOGY BOOKSELLERS
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17457
- Title
- Sacred Fount
- Author
- James, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good (No Dust Jacket)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1901
- Keywords
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- Bookseller catalogs
- Henry James;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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