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A HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
by A. L. Hull
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good +
- Seller
-
Chamblee, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
US: The Foote & Davies Co, 1894. Hardcover. Good +. Signed and inscribed by the author at title page. Brown cloth over boards with gilt particulars to spine and front board; debossed floral decoration to boards. Pages are tanned at edges, but are otherwise clean and unmarked. Text block is soiled and foxed. Boards are moderately to heavily soiled; chipping to cloth at spine; rubbing, bumping and fraying to corners and ends of spine. Binding is tight and square. Clear plastic dust jacket has cracking and chipping to corners and ends of spine; previous owner's tape repair to tail of spine.
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- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64307
- Title
- A HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
- Author
- A. L. Hull
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Foote & Davies Co
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1894
- Keywords
- Georgia History
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Atlanta Vintage Books
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Chamblee, Georgia
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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