ANDY GORDON
by Alger, Horatio, Jr
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Collectible-Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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West Point, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Cleveland: The Goldsmith Publishing Co. Unpaginated (50+ pages); frontispiece. Alger Series in red cloth binding. Book is clean and tight with only ight wear to edges and light (uniform) tanning to pages & endpapers. Dust jacket has a 2" piece missing from head of spine and back panel upper edge, a 1" piece missing from back panel upper corner and front panel lower corner, a 1/2" piece missing from head of spine, several light creases, minor chipping to edges, and minor rubbing to folds. Much nicer than it sounds--Nice decorated binding with gilt lettering to spine in pictorial jacket protected in mylar sleeve.. Hardcover. Collectible-Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bertram Books And Fine Art
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A5355
- Title
- ANDY GORDON
- Author
- Alger, Horatio, Jr
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible-Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Publisher
- The Goldsmith Publishing Co.
- Place of Publication
- Cleveland
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Bertram Books And Fine Art
Payment by check, money order, Paypal, or Biblio payment.
Orders usually ship within 2 business days. Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 LB, or 1 KG and small enough to fit in flat rate envelopes. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required. Virginia customers will be invoiced for 6% sales tax.
Orders usually ship within 2 business days. Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 LB, or 1 KG and small enough to fit in flat rate envelopes. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required. Virginia customers will be invoiced for 6% sales tax.
About the Seller
Bertram Books And Fine Art
Biblio member since 2018
West Point, Virginia
About Bertram Books And Fine Art
Bookseller for over 15 years in a brick and mortar in Williamsburg Va. Now selling primarily online Antiquarian, Collectible and General Stock books. Our stock includes Art, Antique Maps and antique Botanical Lithographs.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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