Boston: Tappan, Whittemore, and Mason. Externally poor, internally very good. Leather covers badly worn, darkened, scuffed and chipped; hinges cracking and covers almost detached; three sections of cover leather off spine and others cracked and chipped - spine covered with a kind of shellac. Page edges and end papers marbled, text block binding tight, some browning to page edges, minimal foxing, very good. . Fair. Full Leather. 8th. 1850.

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Bookseller: Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 086503
Title: Speeches and Forensic Arguments. Volume II
Author: Webster, Daniel
Format/Binding: Full Leather
Book Condition: Used - Fair
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 8th
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tappan, Whittemore, and Mason
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1850
Keywords: SPEECHES; GOVERNMENT; POLITICS; JURISPRUDENCE; AMERICAN HISTORY; US AMERICANA

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We got started selling online as Vintage Quaker Books in 2013 and opened a storefront under the name The Corner Bookshop in 2020. Vintage Quaker Books sells books by, for, and about Quakers (Religious Society of Friends) and a variety of other Christian books. The Corner Bookshop is a general used bookstore located in a cozy basement under/behind the main shopping street of Front Street in Bath, Maine.

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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

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....
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....
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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,...
Poor: A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
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...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....