New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915 Volume VII of the Homestead Edition. Absolutely beautiful quarter-bound wine-colored leather with leather corners and satin cloth-covered boards. Gilt printing on the spine. The spine head iand the top and front edges have a few small chipped places, else fine. Front and back endplates and flyleaves are an attractive marbled brown and gold paper. The frontispiece, by W.T. Smedley, is protected by tissue paper. 217 front deckled-edged, top gilt-edged pages which are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased, although they are beginning to show just a hint of yellowing, else fine. The binding of this Homestead Edition is so good and tight it appears to be unread. A fine collector's edition from a non-smoking household. We ship daily.. Quarter-Bound Leather. Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

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Bookseller: Lots of Love Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 011114
Title: Green Fields and Running Brooks
Author: Riley, James Whitcomb
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1915
Keywords: Poetry, Prose, Literature, Riley, Homestead Edition
Bookseller catalogs: Poetry; Literature;

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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...
Crisp: A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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...
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....