A Bitter Heritage: a Modern Story of Love and Adventure
by Bloundelle-Burton, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Lawrence, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton and Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1899. Hardcover. Tan half-leather hardback is tightly bound with no marks. Number 272 of Appleton's Town and Country Library with usual binding: gilt to spine, marbled boards gilt upper edge uncut fore edge. Many of the pages remain unopened indicating the book was never read. Slight rubbing to spine with leather broken along front edge and a 1/2" piece missing from lower right. Minor rubbing to back cover with minor wear to corners. Digital photos available. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 411 pages .
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- Bookseller
- The Book Lady
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1438
- Title
- A Bitter Heritage: a Modern Story of Love and Adventure
- Author
- Bloundelle-Burton, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1899
- Keywords
- Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
The Book Lady
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Lawrence, Kansas
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- 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...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
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