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The Young Lady and Gentleman's Spelling Book. Containing the First Principles of the English Language, for the Use of Schools
by Hilton, Nathan T
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Exeter, New Hampshire: Ranlet & Norris; Thomas & Tappan, Charles Peirce, George Hilton, 1807. Stated second edition [1807]. Scarce. Worn, unrestored copy in blue-gray paper covered wooden boards with brown sheep leather spine, 167 pages plus on page advertisement. Thirteen pages, including some of Aesop's fables, contain half-page woodcuts, all in good condition. Covers broken with pieces missing, text block holding but with internal cracking, chips to bottom of first several pages, affecting the lower inner corner of text on a few spelling tables, a few additional pages with some loss of text at the outer edges, a few pages with closed tears, pages age-toned with some finger smudging, front free endpaper absent, names and other notes on endpapers.. Hard Cover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 031346
- Title
- The Young Lady and Gentleman's Spelling Book. Containing the First Principles of the English Language, for the Use of Schools
- Author
- Hilton, Nathan T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- Ranlet & Norris; Thomas & Tappan, Charles Peirce, George Hilton
- Place of Publication
- Exeter, New Hampshire
- Date Published
- 1807
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINTS NH SPELLER
- Bookseller catalogs
- Education, Schools, Colleges, Text & Lesson-Books; Fine Bindings, Distinctive Press, Early Printing;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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"...
- 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...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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