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SANCTUARY
by Wharton, Edith 01d
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG book, no DJ. 1st ed. Scuffed cover extrems. 8.5"x5.5", Pp.184
- Seller
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Lyndonville, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY: Scribner's. VG book, no DJ. 1st ed. Scuffed cover extrems. 8.5"x5.5", Pp.184. 1903. 1st edition.. Hardcover. VG book, no DJ. FINE inside. Tight bindng. Gilt lettered green cloth. Front with vine decoration in black. . Tips & spine ends rubbed. One upper tip bumped. Interior all FINE. No glue browning. No foxed or dusty text block edges. Green stained top edge, deckled fore & bottom edges. Zero aging, foxing, soiling, marginalia, etc. All cover gilt bright. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001201
- Title
- SANCTUARY
- Author
- Wharton, Edith 01d
- Illustrator
- 11 plates by Clark..
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG book, no DJ. 1st ed. Scuffed cover extrems. 8.5"x5.5", Pp.184
- Edition
- 1st edition.
- Publisher
- Scribner's
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1903
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- VG book, no DJ. FINE inside. Tight bindng. Gilt lettered green cloth., Front with vine decoration in black., Clark
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
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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