Souvenirs of Travel
by Le Vert, Octavia Walton
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: S. H. Goetzel and Company, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vos (7.5"x5"). 348pp. +348pp. Brown, embossed cloth-covered boards with giltstamped title to spine. Water damaged boards (discoloration and cockled cloth), gilt mostly worn away, spines faded. Spine slant to vol2. Corners bumped and rubbed. Pencil marks to endpapers. Corresponding dampstains throughout, without interior cockling. Pages toned, some foxing. Sewn binding tight, lightly cracked at several locations to gutters. Complete set in 2 volumes.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Downtown Books & News (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3921
- Title
- Souvenirs of Travel
- Author
- Le Vert, Octavia Walton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- S. H. Goetzel and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1857
- Bookseller catalogs
- True Adventure;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Downtown Books & News
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Glossary
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- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...