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About This Item
US: Albert & Charles Boni, 1926. First Edition, second printing. Hardback. Good +. Light blue cloth over boards with navy particulars to spine and navy title to front board. Last page is detached, but still present; otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. Inner hinges cracked, but still hold. Text block is tanned with signs of shelf wear; soiling to first free endpaper and last free endpaper. Boards are soiled with rubbing, fraying and bumping to edges, corners and ends of spine; tearing to edges along spine; sunning to spine and crack in cloth near middle of spine. Binding is sound, spine leans slightly.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64634
- Title
- BLUES: AN ANTHOLOGY
- Author
- W. C. Handy
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, second printing
- Publisher
- Albert & Charles Boni
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1926
- Keywords
- Music
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Atlanta Vintage Books
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Chamblee, Georgia
About Atlanta Vintage Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
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