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The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden, 1865-1900
by Dixon, Thomas, Jr
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York : A Wessels Company, 1906. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Williams, C.D. . 12mo. 469 pages. Hardcover bound in dark blue cloth. There is significant wear from rubbing to the binding. Corners are bumped. Bottom edge of the spine is just beginning to fray. Outer edges of the text block are heavily toned. There is foxing to the title page and the frontispiece as well as to the other illustrations and pages adjacent to the illustrations. The text is toned but otherwise clean and sound.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051553
- Title
- The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden, 1865-1900
- Author
- Dixon, Thomas, Jr
- Illustrator
- Williams, C.D.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- A Wessels Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1906
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾\" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1906; Thomas Dixon, Jr.; Fiction; Literature; Novel; Southern Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana--The South;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
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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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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