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The Autocrat Of The Breakfast-Table And The Professor At The Breakfast-Table
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chatto & Windus, 1893. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1893. No edition remarks. 483 pages. No dust jacket. Half bound red leather with marbled paper covered boards. Rough cut text-block. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout, heavier at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Front free end-paper has a small tear. Some occasional moderate cracking to gutters throughout however binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Sunning to spine. Gilt lettering is darkened.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1660211913IEV
- Title
- The Autocrat Of The Breakfast-Table And The Professor At The Breakfast-Table
- Author
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Date Published
- 1893
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Half Bound
- ...
- 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...