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Septimus Felton; or the Elixir of Life
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Centreville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 229 pp. Bound in 3/4 calf with gilt tooled spine and raised band. Marbled textblock edges, matching the boards and endpapers. Two front flyleaves have a very light water stain line at the bottom. Light rubbing/wear to extremities. . Clean interior. Binding is tight and square.
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- Bookseller
- EGR books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3283
- Title
- Septimus Felton; or the Elixir of Life
- Author
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- James R. Osgood
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1872
- Pages
- 229 pages
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
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