Walt Mason: His Book
by Mason, Walt
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good in Poor dust jacket
- Seller
-
Lawrence, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Barse & Hopkins Publishers. Very Good in Poor dust jacket. 1916. Hardcover. Green cloth hardback is tightly bound with author inscription, signature and date to FFEP but no other marks. Contains numerous black and white illustrations. End papers are lightly foxed at gutters and there is overall age-tanning. Frontis repaired with tape at gutter. Postcard from author laid in. Binding is faded at spine and around edges with very light wear at spine ends and corners. Unclipped DJ, now in Brodart, is tattered and torn, repaired with tape, but there. Digital photos available. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 189 pages; Signed by Author .
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Book Lady (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2047
- Title
- Walt Mason: His Book
- Author
- Mason, Walt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Poor dust jacket
- Publisher
- Barse & Hopkins Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1916
- Keywords
- Humor, Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Book Lady
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Lawrence, Kansas
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- 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.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- 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...