WHEN SHE WAS ABOUT SIXTEEN
by James Whitcomb Riley
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Livonia, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Bobbs-Merrill. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1911. Hardcover. ; Green cloth cover with mounted color pictorial is rubbed at corners and spine caps but near pristine. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. End sheets and paste downs unevenly toned. Pages very lightly toned near extremities otherwise are clean and and pristine. Housed in the rare box issued with the book. The box has been neatly repaired with tape reinforcing the inside edges and the exterior corners. The illustration has light wear and scuffing but in good condition. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12462
- Title
- WHEN SHE WAS ABOUT SIXTEEN
- Author
- James Whitcomb Riley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill
- Date Published
- 1911
Terms of Sale
Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA
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About the Seller
Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2020
Livonia, Michigan
About Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA
Sage Rare & Collectible Books specializes in out-of-print, scarce, and rare books as well as signed and First Editions.
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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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...