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SCRAP-BASKET SAM
by Elizabeth Boyle
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good -
- Seller
-
Chamblee, Georgia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
US: Rand Mc Nally & Co, 1923. Hardcover. Very Good -. Navy cloth over boards with gilt particulars to spine, and gilt particulars and illustrated plate in gilt rule to front board. Previous owner's inscription in pencil to first free endpaper and soiling and foxing to margins of pages throughout, but text is otherwise unmarked. Four illustrated plates intact and bright. Sunning to text block with light foxing to top edge. Endpages are lightly soiled and foxed. Boards are lightly scuffed with soiling to front plate, rubbing to gilt particularly at spine, and bumping and rubbing to edges, corners, and ends of spine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64973
- Title
- SCRAP-BASKET SAM
- Author
- Elizabeth Boyle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Rand Mc Nally & Co
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- Children's
Terms of Sale
Atlanta Vintage Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Atlanta Vintage Books
Biblio member since 2007
Chamblee, Georgia
About Atlanta Vintage Books
Welcome to Atlanta Vintage Books, serving book lovers locally and worldwide for over 30 years. Our 5,000 square foot book store houses over 70,000 vintage, rare and out of print books. You'll be greeted with a smile when you enter but left alone as you browse. Our staff is friendly, helpful and knowledgeable. Special orders are happily accommodated, as hard-to-find and out-of-print editions are a specialty. Our store is light and airy with plate glass windows letting in plenty of natural light and wonderfully decorated with antique display cases, old barrister bookcases, and wood book shelves. The wide aisles and scattered seating make browsing a joy. You'll wonder where the time went.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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