ADVENTURES AMONG BOOKS
by Lang, Andrew
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York & Bombay: Lonigmans, Green, and Co., 1905. 312 pages followed by 49 page catalogue of Longmans General Literature. Frontispiece illustrated with black and white plate with tissue facing. Frontispiece lightly foxed and spine has been repaired/taped. Some pages lightly foxed, particularly at spine, otherwise pages clean and good condition. Endpapers foxed but not marked. Blue cloth, gilt title on spine. Edges worn. Head/tail of spine and corners worn and bumped. GOOD+. 1st U.K. Edition. Hard Cover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- J. Wyatt Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027042
- Title
- ADVENTURES AMONG BOOKS
- Author
- Lang, Andrew
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st U.K. Edition
- Publisher
- Lonigmans, Green, and Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York & Bombay
- Date Published
- 1905
- Keywords
- Essays, Literature, Literary Reviews,
Terms of Sale
J. Wyatt Books
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About the Seller
J. Wyatt Books
Biblio member since 2005
Ottawa, Ontario
About J. Wyatt Books
J.Wyatt Books ( formerly Book Bazaar ) established in 1974. This family-owned small business is located in Ottawa, the National Capital of Canada. We have a very large eclectic mix of books. Please contact us at jwyattbooks.ottawa@gmail.com with any questions or concerns. Member of Ottawa Antiquarian Booksellers Association. Online since 1998 and have over 55,000 books listed online with a large selection of books being added everyday. Please send us your inquiries and we will be happy to help you.
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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.