Doctor Dogbody's Leg
by James Norman Hall
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Covington, Kentucky, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Little, Brown And Company, Boston, 1940. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good Book/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Red-orange full cloth binding with gilt stamped titles and brown stamped decorations on front cover and spine. Covers are clean and bright with some scratches on back and minor shelfwear. Minor rubbing to corners, lower corner on front is bumped. All edges of textblock show light foxing. Endpapers show light age tanning. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front pastedown, bookplate is wrinkled and stained from adhesive. Price written in pencil by previous seller and light offsetting from bookplate on front free endpaper. Hinges strong. Binding tight. Spine leans slightly to right. Small indentations thoughout, one page has folded corner, otherwise clean and complete. 371 pages. 5-5/8 X 8-1/4.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roebling Point Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- HAJO-01-C-0224
- Title
- Doctor Dogbody's Leg
- Author
- James Norman Hall
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Little, Brown And Company, Boston
- Date Published
- 1940
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Roebling Point Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Roebling Point Books
Biblio member since 2022
Covington, Kentucky
About Roebling Point Books
Roebling Rare is the online/antiquarian books division of Roebling Point Books, with bricks-and-mortar locations in Covington and Newport KY.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.