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Sheldons' Modern School Fifth Reader
by Sheldon and Company
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
-
Winston, Georgia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York & Chicago: Sheldon & Company, 1885. Hardcover. Good+. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, pale red cloth boards with red leather to spine. Exterior shows scuffing and spotting and leather has where spots as it is in its original state. There is some chipping to the spine edges, particularly at the top. Edges and corners show bumps/light wear. Internal binding is tight as far as the text pages but the front hinge as a crack starting, not in the gutter but about one fourth of an inch up the pastedown. There are two pages with handwriting on them - the front end page in the rear end page. All the pages in between are in excellent shape, clean with no markings (other than the table of contents which has four small X marks by some of the selections). The young woman who was the original owner from Pennsylvania has her name and the front along with the following poem: "Love me little, love me long. Do not flirt, for it is wrong. (There are than three letters) Bad girls at school.). On the rear end page the following is written very lightly in pencil: "Remember well and bear in mind, a nice young man Hard to find and when you find one good and true stick to him like Spalding glue.".
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Details
- Bookseller
- Yesterday's Book Shop (Member IOBA)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2230550
- Title
- Sheldons' Modern School Fifth Reader
- Author
- Sheldon and Company
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Sheldon & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York & Chicago
- Date Published
- 1885
- Pages
- 476
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Bookseller catalogs
- 19th Century; Education and Yearbooks;
Terms of Sale
Yesterday's Book Shop (Member IOBA)
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About the Seller
Yesterday's Book Shop (Member IOBA)
Biblio member since 2021
Winston, Georgia
About Yesterday's Book Shop (Member IOBA)
Yesterday's Book Shop is an independent, family-owned establishment. The store first opened in 1966 under the name Collector's Corner and was located in Western Maryland. The Collector's Corner dealt mainly in books but also sold stamps and assorted ephemera. In 1975 the name was changed to Yesterday's Book Shop when the store only offered books and printed matter. In the early 2000s the brick and mortar store was closed and now we only sell online.
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All of the book pictures were taken at the time the book was listed and we never use generic or stock photos in any listing. If you would like additional photos or information on any listing please let us know and we will be more than happy to comply.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
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