The Wooing of Malkatoon. Commodus
by Wallace, Lew
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. Full green cloth with silver, dark green, and orange mosaic design to front cover, spine and rear cover, gilt lettering to front and spine, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, 9" tall, 168 pp., illustrations by Frank Du Mond and John Reinhard Weguelin. Slight wear and turning in to spine ends, closed tear to frontispiece, dulling to front cover and spine. A spectacular binding with Arts and Crafts simplicity enhanced by a knot-like flourish for the title box, complete with opposing cross and crescent designs.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Crooked House Books & Paper (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002172
- Title
- The Wooing of Malkatoon. Commodus
- Author
- Wallace, Lew
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1898
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- publishers bindings
Terms of Sale
Crooked House Books & Paper
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About the Seller
Crooked House Books & Paper
Biblio member since 2005
Portland, Oregon
About Crooked House Books & Paper
Welcome to the Crooked House, a one-of-a-kind bookstore in Portland, Oregon. Specializing in the beautiful and unusual: books by, for and about women, cookery, domestic science, decorative publishers bindings, weird how-to books and ephemera, 1920s-30s women's magazines, Modern Library, and more.
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....
- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...