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Above and Below Stairs
by Goodall, John S
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/good +
- ISBN 10
- 0333340477
- ISBN 13
- 9780333340479
- Seller
-
Pittsburg, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Macmillan London, 1983. Cloth. Good/good +. Octavo, pp. [32], including half-pages. Red boards with bumping and gilt accents. Slightly cocked spine. Firm binding; no loose pages. A couple of small stains inside the covers; otherwise pages appear clean and unmarked. Dust jacket with rubbing, sunning, chips and tears; now encased in a clear, protective cover. This book includes upstairs and downstairs illustrations from the Middle Ages through Edward VII (1910). Half-pages are used to display two different scenes from each time period.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Wayside Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12052
- Title
- Above and Below Stairs
- Author
- Goodall, John S
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0333340477
- ISBN 13
- 9780333340479
- Publisher
- Macmillan London
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1983
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art & Design;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Wayside Books
Biblio member since 2021
Pittsburg, Kansas
About Wayside Books
Wayside Books LLC is owned by Dianne and Steven Cox, currently operating their online store in Southeast Kansas. We have honed our rare book skills at the Rare Books School at the University of Virginia and the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar. We sell modern first editions and collectible fiction, as well as children's books and non-fiction books, with an emphasis on history, politics, social sciences, and the arts.
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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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