Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ - Volume 1 Only.
by Wallace, Lew
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Cape Coral, Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper, 1896 Garfield Edition. Volume 1 of a 2 Volume set. Illustrated by William Martin Johnson with photogravures. Books 1-4. 10 plates. Frontispiece with tissue. Apricot silk cloth stamped in gilt design. 438 pages printed on slick paper.Text in fine shape. Pages uncut. Top page edges in gilt. Each page of text is decorated withd drawings. Cover clean but misssing spots of cloth on all sides in less than good condition. Faded spine. Clean and tight text in very nice shape - should be rebound to make a nice volume..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cultural Connection (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12393
- Title
- Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ - Volume 1 Only.
- Author
- Wallace, Lew
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1896
- Keywords
- Fiction, Bible, Religion, Christian
- Bookseller catalogs
- Temporary;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Cultural Connection
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Cape Coral, Florida
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Glossary
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- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...