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The “Breakfast-Table” Series: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table / The Professor at the Breakfast-Table. 2 Volumes
by HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
George Routledge and Sons 1903 2nd edition. Hardback, 6.75 x 4.25 inches. In red full calf leather fine binding, gilt paneled boards with “Haileybury College” crest to front, raised banding to spine, with full gilt decorations and green leather spine label. Marbled endpapers and page edges. In very good condition. Some minor darkening and handling marks to boards. Some minor rubbing to ends of spine and corners. Bookplate to front “E. Lyttelton 1904.” Some minor light foxing to pages. Else a very good clean and tight copy. Engr. frontis. portrait of Mr. Holmes. 223 pp.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 94749
- Title
- The “Breakfast-Table” Series: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table / The Professor at the Breakfast-Table. 2 Volumes
- Author
- HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Routledge and Sons 1903 2nd edition
- Keywords
- Literature Literature autocrat wendell Breakfast table
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
The Antique Map & Bookshop
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About the Seller
The Antique Map & Bookshop
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Dorchester, Dorset
About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Tight
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- Spine
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine Label
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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...
- Fine Binding
- An elaborate and decorative binding, example including a leather-bound book with gilt edges, raised blind stamps, raised ribs,...
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