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DAVID SWING POET - PREACHER
by NEWTON, Joseph Fort
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
ELLSWORTH, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Publisher's original green cloth with gilt spine and upper panel lettering within blind rule, quarto, pp. 273. Top edge gilt. Fore-edge and bottom edges uncut. Many pages unopened. Tissue-guarded frontis portrait of Swing, with some offsetting to title page despite the tissue. Three other full page illustrations, as called for. Previous owner, using perhaps a dull implement or unsteady hand, caused a small half-moon shaped loss of paper at top of Title page when separating it from Dedication page. That tab of paper missing from Title page remains attached at top edge of Dedication page. Shelf wear at spine ends and board tips. Front hinge weak. About Good condition, withal. Printed at The Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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- Bookseller
- T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3721
- Title
- DAVID SWING POET - PREACHER
- Author
- NEWTON, Joseph Fort
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chicago: Unity Publishing Company, 1909
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Theology; Illinois;
Terms of Sale
T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
14 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 14 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed.
About the Seller
T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
Biblio member since 2013
ELLSWORTH, Maine
About T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
Thomas Brennan was established professionally as a Bookseller in 1998 and still exhibits annually at several antiquarian book fairs. He has 25 years full-time experience in the Book Trade and is a member in good standing of The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB); The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA); The Ephemera Society of America; and The Manuscript Society.
Glossary
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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....
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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