Letters of John Quincy Adams, to His Son, on the Bible and Its Teachings
by John Quincy Adams
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG- (Very Good Minus)/NDAI (No Dust Jacket As Issued)
- Seller
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Buffalo, New York, United States
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About This Item
Auburn: James M. Alden, 1850. Reprint. Hardcover. VG- (Very Good Minus)/NDAI (No Dust Jacket As Issued). 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. Publisher's gray-brown cloth with lettering and ornate decoration stamped in gilt and blind. Minor edgewear and soil, and bumped spine ends and corners. All edges gilt. Binding sound, text clean. Interior lightly toned and moderately foxed, with scattered minor soil. Not illustrated. Tip of one corner of rfep is clipped. No prev owner names, stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. 128 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Albion Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001786
- Title
- Letters of John Quincy Adams, to His Son, on the Bible and Its Teachings
- Author
- John Quincy Adams
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG- (Very Good Minus)
- Jacket Condition
- NDAI (No Dust Jacket As Issued)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- James M. Alden
- Place of Publication
- Auburn
- Date Published
- 1850
- Size
- 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall
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About the Seller
Albion Books
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Buffalo, New York
About Albion Books
Albion Books deals in fine used, out of print and rare books on a wide variety of topics. Specialties include Buffalo/New York history, science, religion, occult, and foreign language. The proprietor has been in the antiquarian book business since 2006.
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- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- RFEP
- The portion of the endpaper which is left loose after binding. The first loose page upon opening a book from the rear. It may be...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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