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THE FURNITURE OF OUR FOREFATHERS: (2 vols)
by Singleton, Esther 10t
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- GOOD-VG books. 1st ed. Tight, FINE inside. A nice set.
- Seller
-
Lyndonville, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY: Doubleday Page. GOOD-VG books. 1st ed. Tight, FINE inside. A nice set.. 1901. 1st edition.. Hardcover. GOOD-VG books. With Russell Sturgis descriptions. Spines gilt lettering darkened. Bottom edges scuffed. 11.5"x8", 655pp. . Plates collated. Newspaper page marker has browned a small portion of page 518, vol 2. With this exception, contents as bright & white as new. This includes the pastedowns. Clean text block edges. Not the slightest bit of aging, foxing, soiling, marginalia, etc. No loose leaves or sprung signatures. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001719
- Title
- THE FURNITURE OF OUR FOREFATHERS: (2 vols)
- Author
- Singleton, Esther 10t
- Illustrator
- Profusely illustrated.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - GOOD-VG books. 1st ed. Tight, FINE inside. A nice set.
- Edition
- 1st edition.
- Publisher
- Doubleday Page
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1901
- Keywords
- GOOD-VG books. With Russell Sturgis descriptions. Spines gilt, lettering darkened. Bottom edges scuffed. 11.5"x8", 655pp., Decorative Arts, Furniture Americana
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
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- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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