Lectures and Biographical Sketches
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1904. Hardcover. Good. 1904. Concord Edition. 623 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Volume X of the Concord edition of Emerson's works. Upper text block edge gilt. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Text block edges are a little tanned and foxed with minor scratches. Small edge tear to upper margin of final page. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Boards a little rubbed and marked overall. Gilt is bright.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1629209756EWY
- Title
- Lectures and Biographical Sketches
- Author
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- Date Published
- 1904
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....