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Colonial Days & Dames
by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Poor
- Seller
-
Plano, Texas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
A 19th-century title about women's lives in the North American colonies. Tan leather over boards with gilt stamping on the front and spine, six raised ribs across spine. Text block is gilt on top with deckled edges. Tan marbled decorative endpapers. Protective tissue over B&W frontispiece is intact. Title page has blue & black print. Charming B&W chapter decorations.
Front cover is completely separated from book. Cover is worn, especially on edges, corners, and top & heel of spine. Spine is separating from binding. Papers are age tanned with some stains.
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Details
- Bookseller
- PWK Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- G48
- Title
- Colonial Days & Dames
- Author
- Anne Hollingsworth Wharton
- Illustrator
- E.S. Holloway
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- J.B. Lippincott Co
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1895
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- wharton, colonial days & dames, holloway
- Bookseller catalogs
- PWK Nonfiction; Women's History; Anne Hollingsworth Wharton's colonial histories;
Terms of Sale
PWK Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
PWK Books
Biblio member since 2020
Plano, Texas
About PWK Books
Independent seller of antiquarian books. Prices as listed. PWK Books sells exclusively through Biblio.
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- Age Tanned
- Age tanning, or browning, occurs over time on the pages of books. This process can show up on just the edges of pages, when...
- 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....
- 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....
- 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...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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...
- 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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