Pages and Pictures from the Writings of James Fenimore Cooper.
by Cooper, Susan Fenimore
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
New York: James Miller, 1865. Full dark brown elaborately blind stamped morocco leather with five raised bands and tooled designes on spine. Gilt titling to spine and front cover. All edges gilt. Spine bumped with moderate wear. Endpages inexpertly glued, front board starting. Marginal closed tears to front flyleaf. Numerous full page, tissue guarded steel plate engravings. Spine slightly cocked. Thumbing to a few pages, First pages pulled slightly but still well attached. Overall a GOOD book. Photos available upon request. UncleAndy. Full Morocco Leather. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ziern-Hanon Galleries
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000660
- Title
- Pages and Pictures from the Writings of James Fenimore Cooper.
- Author
- Cooper, Susan Fenimore
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- James Miller
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1865
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
Terms of Sale
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- 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...
- 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...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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....
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