Boston: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1888. Good copy. No jacket. In burgundy cloth covers with elaborate gilt design anf lettering on front cover and faded gilt lettering and design on spine. Gilt top edge. Unmarked, clean pages. Front paste-down gutter is cracked. Soil mark on front free endpaper. Bumping and rubbing of head and tail of spine. Rubbing of edges and corners.. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bookseller: Quaker House Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 001313
Title: Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance
Author: Thomas Moore
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell Company
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1888
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Keywords: ROMANCE
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction, Romance;

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Paste-down: The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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...
Gutter: The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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....
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,...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...
Tail: The heel of the spine.