The Choice of Books.
by Charles F Richardson
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: John B. Alden, Publisher, 1885.. 8vo. 208 pp. Hard Covers. Very Good. Green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and illustration. Some shelf wear and staining to boards. Chipping at head of spine. Spine sunned. Minor toning to first few pages. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Book plate on inside front cover. Newspaper clipping from 1885 pasted to free end paper. Extremely Scarce.From the collection of the late Frederick Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.
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- Bookseller
- Alan Wofsy Fine Arts (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18-8243
- Title
- The Choice of Books.
- Author
- Charles F Richardson
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: John B. Alden, Publisher, 1885.
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About the Seller
Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
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San Francisco, California
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...