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The seven ages of washington
by Owen Wister
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
The Macmillan Company, 1907. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1907. No Edition Remarks. 263 pages. No dust jacket. Blue paper covered boards with brown spine strip. Contains black and white photographic plates. Gilt applied to top edge of text block, remaining sides are rough cut. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper. Frontispiece detached but present. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout however binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Cloth has minor damp and dust stains. Spine panel is missing. Frayed edges of remaining spine strip.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1690539716ADA
- Title
- The seven ages of washington
- Author
- Owen Wister
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Date Published
- 1907
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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 Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
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