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Socrates
by A.E. Taylor
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
-
Longmont, Colorado, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
The Easton Press, The Library of Great Lives, Collector's Edition, 1989. Foreword by Robert S. Brumbaugh. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Used - Near Fine. Easton bookplate with prior owner's name affixed to front fly leaf. Else Fine / As New. Appears unopened / unread. Bound In full (genuine) dark green leather with hubbed spine. Text block is tight and clean with no ownership markings or bookplates. Embossed in 22kt gold on the spine and front and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards. Printed on acid-neutral, archival paper with gilded edges. Smyth sewn with concealed muslin joints, silk moire fabric end leaves, and permanent satin ribbon marker. Library of Great Lives Note About Robert S. Brumbaugh laid in. Photo is of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Barbed Wire Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- m1160
- Title
- Socrates
- Author
- A.E. Taylor
- Format/Binding
- Full leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Collector's Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, CT
- Date Published
- 1989
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Greek Philosophers, Philosophers
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy; Biography & Autobiography; Easton Press;
Terms of Sale
Barbed Wire Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Barbed Wire Books
Biblio member since 2019
Longmont, Colorado
About Barbed Wire Books
Barbed Wire Books is an independantly owned real bookstore in northern Colorado. We've been in business since 2009 and are proud of our award-winning, 5-star reputation for excellent customer service. Our store stocks all sorts of books with note-worthy Western Americana and Children's sections. Not all inventory is listed online so please contact us for specific titles.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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"...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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