English Grammar; "California State Series of School Text-Books
by The State Board of Education
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Sacramento, California: Printed at the State Printing Office, 1888. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 12mo. 292 pages. Hardcover bound in quarter leather with brown cloth-covered boards. Now housed in a modern clear mylar removable dust jacket for protection. The binding is quite rubbed, worn and bumped with the corners abraded and with several stains to the binding. Some splitting to the front hinge near the headcap. Heavy pencil inscriptions and notations on the endpapers, including a signature which appears to read, "Louise Fox / Montezuma Calif" written a couple of times. The text is toned and smudged from handling and has some occasional pencil notations and edge tears.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051142
- Title
- English Grammar; "California State Series of School Text-Books
- Author
- The State Board of Education
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Printed at the State Printing Office
- Place of Publication
- Sacramento, California
- Date Published
- 1888
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 1.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1888; State Board of Education; English Grammar; California State; Text-Books; Textbook; 19th Century; Leather.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Education; Leather Bindings;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.