Colonial Lighting
by Arthur H Hayward
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Camden, Maine, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
B J Brimmer Co, 1923. 1st Ed. hardcover. Good. 8vo, blue cloth binding with gilt illustration and lettering, top edge gilt, spine lightly faded, beautifully inscribed by the author, a classic work on Colonial lighting, well illustrated with photographs, book is clean and tight, paragraph on Astral Lamps on page 121 and plate 94 have been cut out, index, 159 pages" .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Stone Soup Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9258
- Title
- Colonial Lighting
- Author
- Arthur H Hayward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Ed
- Publisher
- B J Brimmer Co
- Date Published
- 1923
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Stone Soup Books
Biblio member since 2004
Camden, Maine
About Stone Soup Books
Established in 1982, Stone Soup Books is a small secondhand bookstore owned by Paul and Agnes Joy in the coastal town of Camden in Maine. With 25,000 books we cater mainly to readers with a large selection of current and classic paperbacks. We also have large sections of nautical, exploration, Maine, gardening, cookbooks, photography, and art books. Our internet stock includes out of print hardcover books, older children's books, and modern first editions.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...