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Lalla Rookh
by Moore, Thomas
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Thomas Y. Crowell and Company, 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover, green cloth spine over white plastic-covered boards, painted floral decorations and lettering to front cover, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, small flower painted to rear cover, all edges gilt, decorative title page, plate illustrations, 6-3/4" tall, 330 pp. Minor wear and loss to plastic at corners, slight spine slant, rubbing to front edge of joint. The use of plastics in bookbinding would be a catalog unto itself; in this case the material resembles vellum at first glance, even the slight bowing of the boards over time. A lovely example of an unusual binding, the Crowell 16mo "Faience Library" edition issued 1896.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Crooked House Books & Paper
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002220
- Title
- Lalla Rookh
- Author
- Moore, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Thomas Y. Crowell and Company
- Date Published
- 1896
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Crooked House Books & Paper
Returns accepted if seller is contacted within 7 days of receipt. Buyer pays postage on returns unless merchandise received does not match original description. If paying with check or money order, payment must be received and verified before order can ship.
About the Seller
Crooked House Books & Paper
Biblio member since 2005
Portland, Oregon
About Crooked House Books & Paper
Welcome to the Crooked House, a one-of-a-kind bookstore in Portland, Oregon. Specializing in the beautiful and unusual: books by, for and about women, cookery, domestic science, decorative publishers bindings, weird how-to books and ephemera, 1920s-30s women's magazines, Modern Library, and more.
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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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....
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