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The Cellini plaque
by MacGRATH, Harold
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Foster, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday, Page & Co.,, 1925. First Edition. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Doubleday, Page & Company; Garden City, 1925. Hardcover. First Edition. A Acceptable to Good Only, brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on front board and spine, binding intact, crimping to spine edges, few faint moisture stains to board and spine buckram, cracked front hinge, missing front free endpaper, age toning to pages, scattered foxing to text block edges and front/back matters, small crease top corner page 231-234, spine buckram starting to separate from backing material, moisture stain top and bottom rear free endpaper, couple of faint moisture spots top text block edge, in a Good Only, handling/scuff marks and discoloration to panels, edge/corner wear with several tears and chips along edges, sunned spine, all four flap corners neatly clipped, moisture stain bottom spine and verso, moisture stain along rear turn and verso, couple of smaller moisture stains on verso rear panels, Dust wrapper. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9], 252pp. We pack securely and ship daily w/delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lavendier Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU1040288
- Title
- The Cellini plaque
- Author
- MacGRATH, Harold
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Co.,
- Date Published
- 1925
- Size
- 0x0x0
- Weight
- 1.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Lavendier Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Lavendier Books
Biblio member since 2008
Foster, Rhode Island
About Lavendier Books
Selling quailty books for over 20 years.
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- Buckram
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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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Acceptable
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- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- 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....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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,...
- Cloth
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