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The Spiritualists: The Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
by Brandon, Ruth
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very good
- Seller
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Livingston, Montana, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Octavo (24 cm), pp. xvi, 318. Blue-gray boards with gray quarter cloth and silver spine titling. Deckle edge. White photographic jacket with $16.95 price. Numerous plates of black and white photographs and drawings. Remainder mark to bottom of text block and light sunning to top of boards. Jacket shows creasing, minor chipping and edge wear.
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- Bookseller
- Elk River Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38081
- Title
- The Spiritualists: The Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- Author
- Brandon, Ruth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
Terms of Sale
Elk River Books
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About the Seller
Elk River Books
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Livingston, Montana
About Elk River Books
Elk River Books offers a curated selection of used and collectible books, specializing in outdoor literature, western history and authors from the Rocky Mountain West.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Deckle edge
- Deckle edge is the feathered edge of a page. Traditionally and historically, this was a side effect of the process of making...
- Remainder Mark
- Usually an ink marking of some sort which indicates that the book was designated a remainder. In most cases, it can be found on...
- 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....
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
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