Wings or Weights
by Montreal, Mary
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
-
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union. Very Good+. 1876. Hardcover. 2 leaves plates; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 114 pages; 1876 copyright American Sunday School Union, Philadelphia. Perhaps printed 1880's. Small format 16mo HC in original green cloth with titles and decorative details boldly in gilt and black to spine. Snugly bound and very neat. Illustrated with a tissue guarded frontis and a plate mid-book. Later gift/prize inscription dated 1907 penned neatly to the first blank leaf: from Cora Bishop to Florence Gehman for attendance, Blooming Glen Primary School. Just mild crimping to cloth at spine ends and trace shelf rubbing to cloth at corner tips. Quite scarce with no copies located in institutional holding searched with Worldcat. VG++ .
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Details
- Bookseller
- DogStar Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45560
- Title
- Wings or Weights
- Author
- Montreal, Mary
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Publisher
- American Sunday School Union
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1876
- Bookseller catalogs
- 19th Century Subjects and Studies; Education;
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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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- Worldcat
- Worldcat is a collaborative effort produced by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) and supported and used by 72,000 libraries...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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