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No Sense Like Common Sense; or, Some Passages in the Life of Charles Middleton, Esq.
by Howitt, Mary
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1843. First edition, 1843. Attractively bound in blue blind stamped cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration, frontis engraving and engraved title page, 176 pages. Minor uneven fading to covers and modest edgewear, good hinges, firm text block, small chip from rear free endpaper, pages lightly to moderately foxed but clean, gift notation in pencil on front free endpaper, no other markings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 047309
- Title
- No Sense Like Common Sense; or, Some Passages in the Life of Charles Middleton, Esq.
- Author
- Howitt, Mary
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- D. Appleton & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1843
- Size
- 16mo - over 5¾" - 6&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
We pack well and ship promptly. Returns: Books may be returned for refund of purchase price within seven days provided prior notification is given and the books are returned in the same condition as when shipped.
About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
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