Afterwhiles
by Riley, James Whitcomb
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair +/No Jacket
- Seller
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El Cajon, California, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis, IN.: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1899 Red cloth, with gilt titles, and top edge gilt. Hinges cracked. White Dewey numbers on the spine. Bare spot and paper remnant on the front pastedown. Several stamps from Trinity Presbytarian Church throughout. Corners fraying with board slightly exposed. Fraying and wear at the top and and bottom of spine. Light damp stains bubbling of the cloth; light soil. Nice portrait frontispiece; quality portrait. He looks much different than I imagined.. Hard Cover, Cloth. Fair +/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Ex-Library.
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 008955
- Title
- Afterwhiles
- Author
- Riley, James Whitcomb
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair +
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- The Bowen-Merrill Company
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis, IN.
- Date Published
- 1899
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Literature;
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- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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