The Antiquary
by Scott, Sir Walter
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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HARWICH PORT, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, NY: A. L. Burt, 1930. New York, NY, A. L. Burt, 1930's? Edition unstated. Rich maroon silk with gilt lettering embossed on spine, illustrated frontispiece, 485 pp. Former owner name plate on endpaper. Dust jacket had moderate shelf wear, price clipped, but bindings are bright, sharp, text block is clean, tight and appears gently read. Very good+ in a good dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover. Unknown. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Respectful Exits
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020625
- Title
- The Antiquary
- Author
- Scott, Sir Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Unknown
- Publisher
- A. L. Burt
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1930
- Keywords
- CLASSIC LITERATURE SCOTLAND
- Bookseller catalogs
- Rare Literature and Fiction; British History;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Respectful Exits
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About the Seller
Respectful Exits
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HARWICH PORT, Massachusetts
About Respectful Exits
Rose's Books is an Internet-only rare and used book service, located on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. We publish and distribute scholarly imprints by Clock & Rose Press.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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