California: For Health, Residence and Pleasure. A book for Travellers and Settlers
by Nordhoff, Charles
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Harper, 1872. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Original brown cloth covers with gilt titles and a black cover design. A Good copy. Book has shelfwear, edgewar, severely bumped corners, soiling to covers and edges of text block, chipping to top and bottom of spine (small pieces missing), a tear to the cloth at the bottom of the spine (about an inch, signatures visible), a tear to the cloth at the top of the spine (about two inches), a cocked spine, toning to pages, a former owner's name on the front endpapers, a tight split at page 16, and a tight split at page 64. No jacket. Interior is otherwise clean and unmarked. 8vo. - over 7¾' in - 9¾' in.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Arundel Books of Seattle
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 621229
- Title
- California: For Health, Residence and Pleasure. A book for Travellers and Settlers
- Author
- Nordhoff, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper
- Date Published
- 1872
- Keywords
- WHAR.874, , , , , , , ,
Terms of Sale
Arundel Books of Seattle
7-day return only if not as described (you must notify us immediately on upon receipt of any problem). We pack carefully.
About the Seller
Arundel Books of Seattle
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Seattle, Washington
About Arundel Books of Seattle
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
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