The Life and Times of Charles Sumner. His Boyhood, Education, and Public Career.
by Nason, Elias
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair+
- Seller
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Bath, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Boston: B. B. Russell. Very worn green cloth covers with gold title and illustration, spine cocked, hinges cracked, library name and number, first few pages wrinkled and foxed, some foxing and finger soiling throughout. . Fair+. Hardcover. 1874.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 088350
- Title
- The Life and Times of Charles Sumner. His Boyhood, Education, and Public Career.
- Author
- Nason, Elias
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- B. B. Russell
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1874
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY; BIOGRAPHICAL; HISTORY; AMERICANA
Terms of Sale
Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop
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About the Seller
Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop
Biblio member since 2013
Bath, Maine
About Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop
We got started selling online as Vintage Quaker Books in 2013 and opened a storefront under the name The Corner Bookshop in 2020. Vintage Quaker Books sells books by, for, and about Quakers (Religious Society of Friends) and a variety of other Christian books. The Corner Bookshop is a general used bookstore located in a cozy basement under/behind the main shopping street of Front Street in Bath, Maine.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Fair+
- Used to describe a book in slightly better than Fair condition. Fair describes "a worn book that has complete text pages...
- 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,...