William Hazlitt
by Baker, Herschel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Belknap Press, Harvard. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. 1962. Hardback. Dust jacket age-toned, a number of small tears and creases at edges, small losses at either end of spine, spotted staining on spine and at head of front panel, offsetting on rear panel; Quarter black cloth and brown cloth boards, slightly warped toward spine, rubbed on edges/corners, gilt lettering bright; Edges lightly age-toned w/ slight staining, previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, endpapers sunned at borders, water mark on ffep, sparse pencil underlining throughout; Binding tight. Overall a sturdy copy with some signs of age. ; 7 x 10"; 530 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walden Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50497
- Title
- William Hazlitt
- Author
- Baker, Herschel
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Belknap Press, Harvard
- Date Published
- 1962
Terms of Sale
Walden Books
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About the Seller
Walden Books
Biblio member since 2010
London, Greater London
About Walden Books
Second-hand and antiquarian booksellers since 1977, in present shop since 1979, open Thurs-Sunday, with an emphasis on History of Art and Architecture, Photography, Literature and Poetry, Literary Biography and Criticism and the the History of London.
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- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....