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A Magnificent Farce
by Newton, A. Edward
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Little Brown and Co, 1921. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. Hardcover. Brown paper covered boards with brown cloth spine. Paper title label on the spine. xx, [1], 267 pages. Gilt top edge. Color frontispiece. Illustrated with photos and sketches. Lightly edgeworn. Cloth spine darkened.Some edge toning to the paper. A bookplate removed from the front paste down. 1921 printed on the verso of the title page. No other editions stated.
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- Bookseller
- Americana Books ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20762
- Title
- A Magnificent Farce
- Author
- Newton, A. Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Little Brown and Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1921
- Keywords
- Books on Books
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Americana Books ABAA
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Stone Mountain, Georgia
About Americana Books ABAA
Americana Books in business since 1993 specializing in American History and Americana. Member ABAA ( Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America)
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- 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....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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