Hardcover no dust jacket, likely as issued - 1829 first edition, Volume II only - text appears clean and unmarked but the two front free end papers are halfway torn from the bottom, there is an apparent water mark on the wrinkled first front free end paper, and there is age toning throughout; binding is square and tight however it is starting to loosen at the front of the book; the half tan leather (spine and corners) are worn but lovely floral gilt pattern on spine is still visible, the red marbled paste-down paper covered boards are worn and the previous owner's name plate is on the inside front cover -- Dependable seller since 1994, daily shipping with tracking from our brick and mortar store in Madison, Wisconsin.

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Bookseller: Frugal Muse (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 22AUG21A024
Title: Tales of the Wars of Our Times. By the Author of Recollections of the Peninsula, & C. Vol. II
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Date Published: 1829
Weight: 0.00 lbs

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...
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.
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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...
Paste-down: The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...