Click for full-size.
THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN BACH MCMASTER AND A SKETCH OF FRANKLIN FIELD BY H. LAUSSAT GEYELIN
by John B. McMaster
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
-
Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. Good+. 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Red and green cloth decorated with gilt. Spine ends starting. Green cloth has some chipping. Original owners inscription on endpaper (H. W. Harrison dated 5/7/1897). Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Double page Frontispiece of the University of Pennsylvania: profusely Illustrated with full page photographs. Pennsylvania, Education. ; B/W Photographs & Drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 126 pages .
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17249
- Title
- THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN BACH MCMASTER AND A SKETCH OF FRANKLIN FIELD BY H. LAUSSAT GEYELIN
- Author
- John B. McMaster
- Illustrator
- John B. McMaster
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1897
- Keywords
- Pennsylvania
- Bookseller catalogs
- Pennsylvania;
Terms of Sale
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Books are conservatively described. Full refund within 20 days. Books mailed upon notification of sale. Books sold by direct payment to bookseller will be shipped after receipt of check or notice of payment through paypal. If your book are heavy or oversized, we may contact you for additional shipping. All books/ephemera are securely packaged to assure safe arrival at their destination. All books for sale are in-stock on premises.
About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Frequently asked questions
This Book’s Categories
Mary Shelley - Mother of Science Fiction
“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.” - Learn more about Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein
Positive Representation Matters
Books transmit cultural values and can shape the views of society. Learn more about the history of American literature in Collecting Children’s Literature by Writers and Educators of the Harlem Renaissance.
