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Letters from Julia or Light from the Borderland
by [Stead, W. T.]
- Used
- Good
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
London: Grant Richards, 1899. Cloth. Good. 188 pp. [8] 12mo. Cream colored cloth over boards w/ gilt titling. Soiling to front and rear boards, spine lightly sunned. Endpapers toned with hinges cracked but holding, some small chips to ffep and rfep. Top edge gilt. Interior clean. Ghost writer William Stead claimed to serve as a transcript for the spirit of the late journalist and temperance reformer, Julia Ames, to communicate with her close friend Ellen.
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Details
- Bookseller
- small volume
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16
- Title
- Letters from Julia or Light from the Borderland
- Author
- [Stead, W. T.]
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Grant Richards
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1899
- Keywords
- Spiritualism, Occult, Humbug, Afterlife, Julia A. Ames, W.T. Stead
Terms of Sale
small volume
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
small volume
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Providence, Rhode Island
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- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
- 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....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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