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The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar Including Anecdote, Biography and History; Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character Volume II
by Chambers, R. Editor
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Poor/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Milwaukee , Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1864 840pp. Bound is three-quarter leather and has marbled endpapers. Gilt design along the leather. Spine has gilt lettering and five raised spine bands. Front cover is detached. Spine head is mostly missing down to the first band. Small to medium pieces are missing from the spine elsewhere as well. Leather spine is cracking. Top third of the rear board is sun fades. Rear board has light stains. Top tip of front board. Endpapers have light foxing. Pages have light toning. Edges of text block have dust staining.. Later Printing. Three-Quarter Leather. Poor/No Dust Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Recycled Records and Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23938
- Title
- The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar Including Anecdote, Biography and History; Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character Volume II
- Author
- Chambers, R. Editor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1864
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian and Rare;
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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....
- 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...
- 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....
- 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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