At The Sign of the Lyre
by Austin Dobson
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Harwinton, Connecticut, United States
Item Price
A$23.24A$17.43
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Henry Holt and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1885. Hardcover. Gold color hardcover with gilt illustration of a Lyre with black leaves. Gilt page edges all around. In very good condition, small faint dampstain line on bottom of several pages. Wear on spine edges.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lavender Path Antiques and Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000409
- Title
- At The Sign of the Lyre
- Author
- Austin Dobson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1885
- Keywords
- POETRY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Lavender Path Antiques and Books
All major credit cards accepted. Paypal accepted. Returns must be made within 30 days of purchase.
About the Seller
Lavender Path Antiques and Books
Biblio member since 2005
Harwinton, Connecticut
About Lavender Path Antiques and Books
We are located in an old schoolhouse built in 1783. We thought books in an old schoolhouse would be a perfect match! Celebrating over 30 years in business. Our shop contains over 20,000 books plus an adjoining antique shop. Weekdays we are open by chance or appointment, weekends 11am to 4pm. Visit our blog at www.lavenderpath.tumblr.com. Explore our boards at www.pinterest.com/lavenderpath.
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...