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Some Favourite Books and Their Authors, With Biographical Sketches and Illustrative Extracts
by Shaylor, Joseph
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Skyway, Washington, United States
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About This Item
London: Grant Richards, 1901. Decorative cloth binding with a bit of staining and soiling. Gilt upper page edges. Gift note inked on front flyleaf. Frontis. with tissue guard. 282pp.`. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6" - 8" Tall.
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- Bookseller
- Turn-The-Page Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 064296
- Title
- Some Favourite Books and Their Authors, With Biographical Sketches and Illustrative Extracts
- Author
- Shaylor, Joseph
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Grant Richards
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1901
- Size
- 12mo - over 6" - 8" Ta
- Keywords
- Joseph Addison, Marcus Aurelius, St. Augustine, Francis Bacon, R.H. Barham, James Boswell, Charlotte Bronte, Sir Thomas Browne, John Bunyan, Thomas Carlyle, Lewis Carroll, Cervantes, Chaucer, Dante, Darwin, Defoe, De Quincey, Dickens, George Eliot, Emerso
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About the Seller
Turn-The-Page Books
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Skyway, Washington
About Turn-The-Page Books
Customer service is our top priority! Susan is an ALA member librarian and lifelong book collector and enthusiast. Peter has happily spent over 30 years in the used book business. Books are well packaged to prevent damage in transit.
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- 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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