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THE ANCIENT REGIME. A TALE. (Volumes 1&2 of 2)
by James, George Payne Rainsford
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Harper & Brothers, 1841. hard cover. Good. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1841. In Two Volumes. Hardcover, no jacket. 212pp+204pp. Good only condition. Half leather boards with gilt decoration and titling to spine, with with gilt stamped owner name (T.H. Perkins Jr) on front. Boards are heavily shelf worn, and leather is torn and cracked in places. Same owner name is neatly penned to both title pages. Title page for Vol 1 is torn with the bottom one inch or so of the page missing. In Volume 2 page 47/48 is also torn with with similar loss at top of page affecting textblock. Otherwise very satisfactory inside, with scattered light foxing but no markings. The bindings are secure. (cfm)
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- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23842
- Title
- THE ANCIENT REGIME. A TALE. (Volumes 1&2 of 2)
- Author
- James, George Payne Rainsford
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Date Published
- 1841
- Keywords
- GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFORD JAMES, 19TH CENTURY LITERATURE
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Parnassus Book Service
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About the Seller
Parnassus Book Service
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts
About Parnassus Book Service
Ben Muse began selling books from the former Knowles General Store in 1959. Now in our third generation, we are a famiy-run, general book store selling new and old (often rare) books as well as issuing specialty catalogs on a variety of subjects: Americana, Latin America, Maritime, Art, the Orient and a variety of other subjects. If you can't find what you are looking for here on the web, please contact us directly at our Yarmouthport shop -- or better yet stop by to browse and talk. We look forward to seeing you.
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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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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"...
- 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...
- 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,...
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