Letters of Travel
by Brooks, Phillips
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket; Front hinge cracked, boards rubbed.
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: E. P. Dutton and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Front hinge cracked, boards rubbed.. 1893. Hardcover. Navy cloth binding with gilt ruling on boards and gilt lettering on spine. Top edges gilt. A collection of letters by the late Boston Bishop regarding his 1865-66 trip through Europe and the Holy Lands, his 1870 trip to the Tyrol and Switzerland, other European jaunts in 1872, 1874, 1877,1880, and 1885, a trip to Europe and India in 1882-83, San Francisco in 1886, and Japan in 1889.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 386 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30913
- Title
- Letters of Travel
- Author
- Brooks, Phillips
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket; Front hinge cracked, boards rubbed.
- Publisher
- E. P. Dutton and Company
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1893
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel and Adventure;
Terms of Sale
Old Saratoga Books
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About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Glossary
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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,...