UNCLE PETER'S TRUST OR FOLLOWING THE DRUMS
by Perry, George B
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No jacket
- Seller
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York:Harper & Brothers, (1889). hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. New York:Harper and Brothers. (1889). Presumed 1st edition. vi+283pp. Illustrated. Hardcover. Decorated blue boards lightly soiled and shelfworn, with wear to edges, spine ends and edge points gently bumped and worn to boards. Internally floral end-pages very good, with an old bookseller ticket to bottom inside rear board, with an inscription to the 2nd free end-page for "Excellence in Scholarship" with an old inked price to top of same page. Otherwise, aside form light foxing scattered throughout, a very good copy. The binding is tight, front hinge cracked at inscription page and intact in rear.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26428
- Title
- UNCLE PETER'S TRUST OR FOLLOWING THE DRUMS
- Author
- Perry, George B
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York:Harper & Brothers
- Date Published
- (1889)
- Keywords
- JUVENILE; CHILDREN'S; STORIES; AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE;
Terms of Sale
Parnassus Book Service
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About the Seller
Parnassus Book Service
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts
About Parnassus Book Service
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...