Tales From the Alhambra
by Irving, Washington
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Moab, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1910. Decorative Cloth. Blue boards with decorative gold gilt design on front. Spine is faded and gold gilt is very dark. Light soiling to boards; corners lightly bumped. Tight binding. Owners signature on back of frontisepiece. All six color illustrations present; one is loose. Light foxing and one dog-eared page.; Book; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Back of Beyond Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001129
- Title
- Tales From the Alhambra
- Author
- Irving, Washington
- Illustrator
- C.E. Brock
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston and New York
- Date Published
- 1910
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Back of Beyond Books
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Moab, Utah
About Back of Beyond Books
Located in the heart of the desert southwest Back of Beyond Books is an indie bookstore in Moab, Utah. The name of the store was drawn from one of Edward Abbey's most well-known fiction titles, The Monkey Wrench Gang. We specialize in natural history, environmental literature, southwestern guidebooks & maps, Native American books, and Western history. But we also carry a wild assortment of fiction, science, philosophy, current affairs, rare books, and generally other cool stuff.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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