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High-Ways and By-Ways; Or Tales Of The Roadside, Picked Up in the French Provinces by A Walking Gentleman(FIRST EDITION, 1823)
by Thomas Colley Grattan
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Hendersonville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London : Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, 1823. Hardbound brown pebbled calf covers, gilt design and title on cover. Wear to edges, head and tail of spine. Red endpapers, uncut fore and bottom page edges. A pasted sheet on front fly leaf indicates volume is a rare English edition. Text free of writing. 432 pp. Full refund if not satisfied.
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- Bookseller
- Shelley and Son Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 071410
- Title
- High-Ways and By-Ways; Or Tales Of The Roadside, Picked Up in the French Provinces by A Walking Gentleman(FIRST EDITION, 1823)
- Author
- Thomas Colley Grattan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION
- Publisher
- Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1823
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Travel; France; French Provinces
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel & Exploration;
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
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