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THE GIRL I LOVED
by James Whitcomb Riley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair with no Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Delaware, Ohio, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Bobbs Merrill. Fair with no Dust Jacket. 1910. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 84 pages; Red flexible leather with gilt lettering on front and spine. Heavy wear and rubbing to the spine and turns on spine. Rubbing to the upper and lower edges of covers. Spine is split vertically. Binding remains intact. Contents are shaken. Binding is cracked in two locations in mid book, but pages are secure and are in position. Gift inscription ink inscribed on front end page. No other marks noted. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Reading Well Bookstore
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9126
- Title
- THE GIRL I LOVED
- Author
- James Whitcomb Riley
- Illustrator
- Margaret Armstrong
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no Dust Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Bobbs Merrill
- Date Published
- 1910
- Keywords
- LITERATURE, POETRY, ROMANCE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
The Reading Well Bookstore
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
The Reading Well Bookstore
Biblio member since 2020
Delaware, Ohio
About The Reading Well Bookstore
The Reading Well Bookstore is an online only business offering good to excellent condition books that are used, vintage, and antiquarian.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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,...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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....
- 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...
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