The Splendid Idle Forties
by Atherton, Gertrude
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Frederick A. Stokes, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Red cloth with gilt titles and decoration, a bit grubby, some fading to spine. Spine square. Binding sound. No jacket. Bookplate at front paste down, and store plate at rear paste down; pages foxed. Text else unmarked.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Book Bin (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BBS-2016676
- Title
- The Splendid Idle Forties
- Author
- Atherton, Gertrude
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Frederick A. Stokes
- Date Published
- 1902
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...