Outcroppings: Being Selections of California Verse
by Harte, Bret (Uncredited editor)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco And NY: A. Roman/W. J. Widdleton. Fair with no dust jacket. 1866. Hardcover. Green cloth titled/decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, beveled boards. Early edition. Ex-library copy with number to spine, pocket to rear, blindstamped letters to title page and stamps. Rear board and ffep are detached, included. PO name to ffep. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Seller
- curtis paul books inc.
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 19298
- Title
- Outcroppings: Being Selections of California Verse
- Author
- Harte, Bret (Uncredited editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- A. Roman/W. J. Widdleton
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco And NY
- Date Published
- 1866
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- 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....
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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