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The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic, and War
by Ruskin, John, M.A
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/None`
- Seller
-
Burlington, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: John W. Lovell Company 94 pages. Also bound in is a second volume: "The Queen of the Air Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm" at 130 pages. Circa 1890s- 1900s.
Green, full-cloth binding with a griffin & books in black. Stamped details and borders. Spine title-panel is gilt, looks clean. Binding is loose but square, corners bumped. Light wear at head and tail of spine. Front endpaper detached. Brown endpapers feat. flowers, papers foxed but clean.No DJ
Edition unknown. Decorative Cloth with Gilt. Fair No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Douglas Lord
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 169
- Title
- The Crown of Wild Olive
- Author
- Ruskin, John, M.A
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- None`
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- N/A
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Lovell
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- ND
- Pages
- 94, 130
- Size
- 12mo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Ruskin olive
Terms of Sale
Douglas Lord
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged. Burden of proof lies with buyer.
About the Seller
Douglas Lord
Biblio member since 2016
Burlington, Connecticut
About Douglas Lord
Single seller, smoke-free home, fair prices
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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