Ben Franklin, an Affectionate Portrait
by Nelson Beecher Keyes
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The World's Work, 1956. Hardcover. Good. 1956. First Edition. 318 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Light foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Sticker to front free endpaper. Light cracking and creasing to gutters but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1689698854LEE
- Title
- Ben Franklin, an Affectionate Portrait
- Author
- Nelson Beecher Keyes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The World's Work
- Date Published
- 1956
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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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...
- 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...
- 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....
- First Edition
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- Jacket
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