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The Drama of the Medieval Church (2 volumes)
by Young, Karl
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Bayfield, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Oxford, UK: The Clarendon Press, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 708 pp. & 611 pp. inc. index. Dark brown boards with gilt lettering on spine. Shelf wear to boards of both volumes. Head and tail of spines rubbed and lightly chipping. Ex-libris copies with black discard mark on spine and library stamp on title pages. Both volumes edges of text block darkened with some foxing. Some appearance of past mildew on edges of text block. Endsheets age-tanned. Hinge cracking at half title page vol I, and cracking slightly at title page of vol. II. Pages lightly edge-tanned. Erratum inserted at preface. Binding solid throughout. B&W plates glossy and crisp. A unique and relatively scarce two volume set of medieval religious dramas, complete with footnotes and explications. Multivolume Sets
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Details
- Bookseller
- Honest Dog Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A803981X03JLU
- Title
- The Drama of the Medieval Church (2 volumes)
- Author
- Young, Karl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Clarendon Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford, UK
- Date Published
- 1933
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Honest Dog Books
Biblio member since 2022
Bayfield, Wisconsin
About Honest Dog Books
Honest Dog Books is a family-run new and used general interest bookstore with a long history in Bayfield, Wisconsin. Owners Julie Buckles and Charly Ray are wilderness travelers with a team of sled dogs, two teenagers, and deep love for community, literature, and conversation.
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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....
- 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...
- Mildew
- Mildew is an all-too-common affliction that plagues books and erodes their collectibility, value and preservation. A fungus...
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