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THE LETTERS OF DR. CHARLES BURNEY: VOLUME ONE, 1751-1784
by Ribeiro, Jr., Alvaro [Editor]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0198126875
- ISBN 13
- 9780198126874
- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Oxford, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, x, xi, xii, xviii, xxi, xxix, xxxiv, 501 pages. In Very Good minus condition, lacking the issued dust jacket. Spine dark blue with gilt lettering. Boards show slight sunning to the spine with mild wear to front/rear, faint sticker residue to lower spine and light wear to the head/tail edges. Text block has ex-library name stamped to fore edge, small brownish stain to tail edge and several instances of ex-library markings interiorly. Frontispiece. Illustrated. Volume One. First Edition, First Printing. 1371193. FP New Rockville Stock.
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- Seller
- Second Story Books, ABAA
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 1371193
- Title
- THE LETTERS OF DR. CHARLES BURNEY: VOLUME ONE, 1751-1784
- Author
- Ribeiro, Jr., Alvaro [Editor]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0198126875
- ISBN 13
- 9780198126874
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford, New York, Toronto
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- Burney, Charles, 1726-1814, correspondence. Musicologists, England, correspondence.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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....
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- 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....
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