Item Price
£56.21£44.97
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About This Item
C. Whittingham, 1808. Published circa 1808; full leather, morocco label on spine, marbled endpapers; cover rubbed/bumped, corners and spine quite rubbed with chipping on spine, spine ends quite chipped, front board detached, cover otherwise intact; edges sunned/soiled; previous owner's bookplate front pastedown, textblock faintly age-toned/foxed, minor marginalia sprinkled throughout, previous owner's notes (pencil) rear endpapers, pencil erasures top ffep; binding tight; edges and interior intact and clean, except where noted.. hardcover. Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Munster & Company, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 599523
- Title
- Fables
- Author
- Gay, John
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- C. Whittingham
- Date Published
- 1808
Terms of Sale
Munster & Company, LLC
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.
About the Seller
Munster & Company, LLC
Biblio member since 2018
Corvallis, Oregon
About Munster & Company, LLC
Munster & Company is a family owned business with over twenty years of experience in buying and selling books. In October of 2017, we purchased Black Oak Books, originally in Berkeley, California, and moved it all to where we live in Corvallis, Oregon. Our inventory currently features a robust number of titles on mathematics, books about books, literature, poetry, and signed books. New arrivals are listed nearly every day.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- 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....
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- 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...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Erasures
- Erasures indicates marks where someone has removed bits of text or content from a book. In Book Arts, erasures can also mean a...