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A DIARY FROM DIXIE
by Mary Boykin Chestnut
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good -
- Seller
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Chamblee, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
US: D. Appleton & Co, 1914. Hardcover. Very Good -. Tan cloth over boards with gilt particulars and gilt and blue decoration to spine and front board. Frontispiece is attached and intact. Pages have scattered foxing and soiling throughout; title page is heavily foxed. Text block is foxed with light to moderate shelf wear; top edge gilt; fore edge and lower edge deckled. Boards are lightly soiled with two black pen marks to front board; rubbing and bumping to edges, corners and ends of spine. Inner hinges cracked, but still hold. Binding is sound. Clear plastic dust jacket has chipping to ends of spine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64303
- Title
- A DIARY FROM DIXIE
- Author
- Mary Boykin Chestnut
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- D. Appleton & Co
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1914
- Keywords
- Southern History
Terms of Sale
Atlanta Vintage Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Atlanta Vintage Books
Biblio member since 2007
Chamblee, Georgia
About Atlanta Vintage Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
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