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Handy Andy: A Tale of Irish Life
by Lover, Samuel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Dustjacket
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Henry B. Ashmead, 1854. Book. Illus. by Geo. G. White, Illustrator. Very Good+. Hardcover. Philadelphia: Henry B. Ashmead , 1854. Very Good+/No Dust jacket. Geo. G. White, Illustrator. Very clean unworn brown decorated cloth binding with black and gold decoration and lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean, no foxing. Clean chocolate brown endpapers -- no names, writing or bookplates. Some very shallow chipping to bottom of front free endpaper and base of front fixed endpaper. Two black and white illustrations at front of book with clean tissue guard between (illustrations by George G. White). Brown ribbon page marker. 419 pp. Very clean, solid book..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019955
- Title
- Handy Andy: A Tale of Irish Life
- Author
- Lover, Samuel
- Illustrator
- Geo. G. White, Illustrator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dustjacket
- Publisher
- Henry B. Ashmead
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1854
- Keywords
- IRISH LITERATURE FICTION ANTIQUARIAN SAMUEL LOVER DECORATED BINDING
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian;
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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