The Old Farmer and His Almanack.
by Kittredge, George Lyman
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston: William Ware, 1904. . 8vo. 403 pp. Dark red cloth-covered boards with gilt spine. Very good with some shelf wear. Well worn to spine. Deckled pages. Black and white engravings. Gravure Frontispiece with protective vellum page. Ex-library with Groton Public Library plate on inside cover, and sticker on spine.
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Details
- Seller
- Alan Wofsy Fine Arts (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 18-2688
- Title
- The Old Farmer and His Almanack.
- Author
- Kittredge, George Lyman
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Boston: William Ware, 1904.
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- History;
Terms of Sale
Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
Payment by credit cards or other means. 20% charge for returns,unless item is misdescribed.
About the Seller
Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
Biblio member since 2006
San Francisco, California
About Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
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Glossary
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- 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...
- 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....
- 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. ...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Gravure
- ...