Sordello
by Browning, Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Intenally clean and fresh but for abraded front pastedown from bookplate removal. Binding sound with dark green sunned to brown
- Seller
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Austin, Texas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Intenally clean and fresh but for abraded front pastedown from bookplate removal. Binding sound with dark green sunned to brown on spine. Moxon London 1840 1st Edition Hardback 12mo. 253pp. Rebound in full crushed morocco by Riviere, raised bands, gilt spine and top edge. Gilt dentelles. With half-title page, one-page ad in back. First edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- 12th Street Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS 53110 I
- Title
- Sordello
- Author
- Browning, Robert
- Book Condition
- Used - Intenally clean and fresh but for abraded front pastedown from bookplate removal. Binding sound with dark green sunned to brown
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Moxon
- Date Published
- 1840
Terms of Sale
12th Street Books, ABAA
All books subject to prior sale. Returns accepted within 7 days of receipt with prior notification.
About the Seller
12th Street Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2007
Austin, Texas
About 12th Street Books, ABAA
12th Street Books is an open bookshop in downtown Austin selling used, rare, and out-of-print books on scholarly subjects.
Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
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