"Dame Curtsey's" Book of Guessing Contests.
by GLOVER, Ellye Howell
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Tamworth, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1925. Reprint. Small octavo, boards backed in red cloth, pp. x, 138. Name on endpaper, bumps to lower edges of covers, else very good in a dust jacket lacking pieces from the spine ends [1" gone at base] and corners..
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- Bookseller
- Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10919
- Title
- "Dame Curtsey's" Book of Guessing Contests.
- Author
- GLOVER, Ellye Howell
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1925. Reprint.
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Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB
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About the Seller
Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Tamworth, Ontario
About Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB
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Glossary
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.