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Kingdom of Books, The
by Orcutt, William Dana
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1927. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 290 pages, color frontispiece, many b&w illustrations. Top edge gilt. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. Previous owner's bookplate and 5-line note on front fly leaf. Otherwise, clean and tight copy. Record # 403604
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- Bookseller
- Browsing Is Arousing
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 403604
- Title
- Kingdom of Books, The
- Author
- Orcutt, William Dana
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- Reference, Books On Books, , .
Terms of Sale
Browsing Is Arousing
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About the Seller
Browsing Is Arousing
Biblio member since 2021
Middlebury, Vermont
About Browsing Is Arousing
From the founders of "Monroe Street Books", "Browsing is Arousing" is a strictly on-line antiquarian, rare, out-of-print & used books store. Our wide-range of inventory includes: Art, Children's Picture and Chapter, Exploration, Fiction, History, Illustrated, Literature, Mystery, Science Fiction, Photography, Performing Arts, Regional, Sciences and Sports.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- 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...