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Holland
by Edmondo De Amicis
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Gleneden Beach, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Philadelphia: Henry A. Stokes Company, 1894. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Copyright 1894, translated from the 13th Edition of the Italian by Helen Zimmern, TWO Volumes in original slipcase, Very Good Plus or better, nicely bound in red cloth hardback with gilt title to spine that shows some fading, gilt tulip ornamentation to front boards bright and crisp, Top Edge Gilt, Volume 1: 273 Pages, Volume 2: 275 pages with Fine map bound in rear, , tight and square, sharp corners, No previous owner bookplate or writing, heavily illustrated with period sepia toned images with captioned tissue guards, clean end papers, Slipcase is Good Plus, shows some wear and rear panel is plain paper. Very nice copy at a Bargain price. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pacific Coast Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003730
- Title
- Holland
- Author
- Edmondo De Amicis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Henry A. Stokes Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1894
- Keywords
- Holland, Travel Books
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Pacific Coast Books
10 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives mis-described or damaged.
About the Seller
Pacific Coast Books
Biblio member since 2015
Gleneden Beach, Oregon
About Pacific Coast Books
Pacific Coast Books specializes in quality of books of interest from our store on the Central Oregon Coast. We are proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and have been buying and selling books for almost 20 years. Visit our website at www.Pacifc CoastBooks.net. Please feel free to call or email with any titles you would like to add to your collection. Only a small fraction of our inventory is online. We buy book collections.
Glossary
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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....
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
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