Cleveland, OH: Williams Publishing Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth with gilt title and knight's helmet motif on front. Edgewear, bumped corners and spine ends with a little fraying and board showing, moderate soiling and rubbing. Shaken binding and clean text. Former owner name on ffep. First three pages are heavily edgeworn with chipping and tears. Page edges foxed. A few pages of ads at rear, some with illustrations. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 384 pages .

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Bookseller: Old Editions Inc. (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 5998
Title: History of the Order of Knights of Pythias for the Jurisdiction of Cleveland, Ohio
Author: N/a
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good with no dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Williams Publishing Co.
Place of Publication: Cleveland, OH
Date Published: 1892
Keywords: Cleveland, Ohio, History, Order, Knights, Pythias, Organization, Illustrated
Bookseller catalogs: Fraternities & Organizations;

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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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...
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...
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....
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Shaken: A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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...