Rhymes of Childhood
by Riley, James Whitcomb
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good +
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co, 1903. Hardcover. Good +. [4], ix-xii, 216 p., frontispiece; 19 cm. Brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and gilt-stamped ears of corn on spine and front cover. Top page edges gilt. Copyright 1896 and 1898 by the author. Bobbs-Merrill began business in 1903. In Good+ Condition: corners rubbed; ends of spine starting to fray; former owner's name crossed out on front free endpaper; otherwise, clean and tight.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006050
- Title
- Rhymes of Childhood
- Author
- Riley, James Whitcomb
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill Co
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1903
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Classic Books and Ephemera
If the item is not as described, the buyer must contact us within 72 hours of their receipt of it. We will refund the full amount with the costs of return shipping within 24 hours of receipt of the item.
About the Seller
Classic Books and Ephemera
Biblio member since 2006
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
About Classic Books and Ephemera
We have a large stock, focusing primarily, but by no means exclusively, on 16th- to mid-19th-century books in English, French, and German in the fields of history, travel, and the arts, and children's books; late 19th- and early 20th-century military prints and postcards; and manuscripts, deeds, maps, and printed ephemera of all periods and disciplines.
Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...