D. Appleton & Company, New York, 1862. Hardcover. Good. 1862. 184 pages. Brown cloth with gilt spine titles, border ruling in blind to front and rear panels. Cloth worn, bumped to spine tips and fore-edge corners, frayed to bottom fore-edge corners, sunned to spine with titles very faded. Spine square. Binding sound. FFEP missing. Early owner's name penned to fly leaf. Heavily foxed through front matter and to fly leaves following text; the text itself is clean. Steel engraving illustrations at frontis and title page.

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Bookseller: The Book Bin (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: BBS-011945
Title: Which is the Wiser: Or, People Abroad. A Tale for Youth
Author: Howitt, Mary
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: D. Appleton & Company, New York
Date Published: 1862
Weight: 0.00 lbs

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Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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...
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...
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"...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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...
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....