New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1919. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. Quarto. 249 pages. Hardcover in black and white illustrated dust jacket. DJ is foxed, has smudges. The DJ has edgewear, some places have had tape applied. There is chipping at the headcap, and a .5 inch tall by 1.5 inch wide chip missing from the foot. The front gutter is broken. Cords show. Rear hinge is secure. Text has some toning at edges, Illustrations throughout.

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Bookseller: Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 040014
Title: Some Old Portraits: A Book About Art and Human Beings
Author: Tarkington, Booth
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fair
Jacket Condition: Fair
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Co.
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1919
Keywords: 1919; Booth Tarkington; Art; Portraits;
Bookseller catalogs: Art;

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Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.

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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

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...
Gutter: The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
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...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Quarto: The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.