Idle Comments
by Avery, Isaac Erwin
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Charlotte, N.C.: Stone Publishing Co., 1912. Second Edition. . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo. 271, 13 pages. Hardcover bound in slate blue cloth. The binding is rubbed and worn and a bit shaken. Gilt is dulled. Rear inner hinge is starting. There is a bit of damping at the top of the gutters and top edge on the text block. This is mostly at the front and rear and is confined to the margins. The copyright page states 1905, but the Dedication page is dated 1912.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 046859
- Title
- Idle Comments
- Author
- Avery, Isaac Erwin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition.
- Publisher
- Stone Publishing Co.
- Place of Publication
- Charlotte, N.C.
- Date Published
- 1912
- Keywords
- 1912; Isaac Erwin Avery; North Carolina; Fiction; Literature; Essays; Collectible; Charlotte Observer.
- Bookseller catalogs
- North Carolina; North Carolina Literature;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.