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Substance and Shadow : or Morality and Religion in Their Relation to Life, An Essay Upon the Physics of Creation
by Henry James
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. 12mo. Bound in the publishers original red cloth with paper title label on spine. VERY GOOD. Shows some chipping of the boards and spine at the edges, paper title label slightly chipped and rubbed, some light scattered foxing of the first several pages, curisf former owner name of the period on the front paste-down, otherwise the text is clean and unmarked, the boards remain colorful and distinctive, and the binding is strong and tight. As pictured.
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- Bookseller
- North Books: Used & Rare
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- R21
- Title
- Substance and Shadow : or Morality and Religion in Their Relation to Life, An Essay Upon the Physics of Creation
- Author
- Henry James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Ticknor and Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1863
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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...
- 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...
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