New York: A. L. Burt Company Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Cornell Series, stated on spine. No date. Edition not stated. Blank copyright page. Green cloth. Boards clean with minor shelf wear. Spine ends gently bumped, gilt lettering clean and bright. Binding sound, very lightly cracked at pp 224, 225; previous owner had bracketed a sentence on the former page. Text block age darkened. Contents otherwise unmarked..

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Bookseller: Small World Books, LLC (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 071765
Title: Letters, Sentences and Maxims
Author: Lord Chesterfield
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: No DJ
Publisher: A. L. Burt Company
Place of Publication: New York
Keywords: WRITING
Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall

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Copyright page: The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
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...
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....
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....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...