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GRANDMA'S ATTIC TREASURES, A STORY OF OLD-TIME MEMORIES
by Brine, Mary D
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Palmyra, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
E. P. Dutton. Fair with no dust jacket. 1882. Hardcover. E--Brown cloth covers worn and rubbed, with especially heavy rubbing, boards visible, and loss at corners, along edges and at spine ends. Front end page and next page in were stuck together at one time, so two pieces of front end page are attached to next page in. Chip/tears on end pages. Hinge paper cracked. Some chips/tears along fore edge of frontis. Several pages in the front not lined up properly with the rest of the text block. Gilt closed edges. Some gutter cracks. Spine slant. Text clean of highlighting, underlining or other pen/pencil marks. A Little Store that's BIG on Service. Tracking on every package. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Village Bookmarket
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34199
- Title
- GRANDMA'S ATTIC TREASURES, A STORY OF OLD-TIME MEMORIES
- Author
- Brine, Mary D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- E. P. Dutton
- Date Published
- 1882
- Keywords
- Poetry, Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Village Bookmarket
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
Village Bookmarket
Biblio member since 2008
Palmyra, New York
About Village Bookmarket
Book Repair, Professional, Tender Loving Repair of your books in Distress.Books, used, antiquarian, out-of-print, and gifts including Mini Book Earrings.A Little Shop That is BIG on Service.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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....
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