The Story of Minstrelsy
by Duncan, Edmondstoune
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London & New York: Walter Scott & Charles Scribners. Very Good. 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 337 pages; 1907 The Walter Scott Publishing Co. & Charles Scribners. HC 1st edition. Snugly bound, bright and neat in original brick red cloth with titles and decorative pictorial design to cover and spine in a combination of gilt and blind; top edge gilt. The book designer's monogram embedded in the design. Just mild shelf evidence to cloth at tips and a light shelf bump bottom front corner. Usual general toning to the first two pages from offset of the coated endsheets. Illustrated with facsimile reproduction of notable leaves of printed music and with some musical notation. Issued in the Music Story series. VG .
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Details
- Bookseller
- DogStar Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47962
- Title
- The Story of Minstrelsy
- Author
- Duncan, Edmondstoune
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Walter Scott & Charles Scribners
- Place of Publication
- London & New York
- Date Published
- 1907
- Bookseller catalogs
- Decorative bindings;
Terms of Sale
DogStar Books
15 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 15 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
DogStar Books
Biblio member since 2020
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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