Half Hours in the Wide West : Ober Mountains, Ribers, and Prairies
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Shelbyville, Indiana, United States
Item Price
£102.78£82.22
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About This Item
London: James Nisbet & Co. , Limited, 1900. Book. Very Good. Calf. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Full blue polished calf, lacking the title label at the spine. 5 raised bands with intricate gilting to the spine, gilted decorative borders front and back as well as stamped, gilted crest of the Campden Grammar School of Gloucestershire to the front. Marbled page edges. 340 pp. with "numerous illustrations " (97 by my count)...Presentation copy by Francis Bazley Osborne, Headmaster ( 1889 to 1913) to his son, Alec, Midsummer 1907, as noted on the presentatation paper 4" x 5" attached inside the front board. Binding by Relfe Brothers, Limited, London , as noted at obverse bottom of FEP. Marbled EPs. This copy is VG. Exterior has modest/moderate scuffing . Inside is otherwise unmarked, firmly bound, and all hinges solid. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Scattered foxing, but unobtrusive. Quite lovely..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bailey Bonzo Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001337
- Title
- Half Hours in the Wide West : Ober Mountains, Ribers, and Prairies
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- James Nisbet & Co. , Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1900
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Bailey Bonzo Books
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Shelbyville, Indiana
About Bailey Bonzo Books
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- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...