The Preservation of Leather Bookbindings
by Penderleith, H. J
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1953. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. 24 pages. Bound in flexible tan cloth wrappers. Light wear to the binding. The covers are curling up a bit at the fore edges. Endpapers toned. Text is clean.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 047256
- Title
- The Preservation of Leather Bookbindings
- Author
- Penderleith, H. J
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Trustees of the British Museum
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1953
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1953; H. J. Penderleith; Preservation; Leather; Bookbinding; Book Binding.
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Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...