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The Gentle Reader
by Samuel McChord Crothers
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1903. Near Fine/Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1903. First Edition. Octavo. 321 pages. Printed dust jacket with $1.25 price at bottom of spine. Brown blindstamped boards stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt.
Dust jacket chipped along edges, most notable at top of spine. Two long closed tears to front panel starting along top edge. Spine toned. Boards show light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Some toning to preliminaries but pages otherwise clean and unmarked.
Dust jacket chipped along edges, most notable at top of spine. Two long closed tears to front panel starting along top edge. Spine toned. Boards show light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Some toning to preliminaries but pages otherwise clean and unmarked.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9010
- Title
- The Gentle Reader
- Author
- Samuel McChord Crothers
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1903
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
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