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LAYS OF ANCIENT INDIA. SELECTIONS FROM INDIAN POETRY RENDERED INTO ENGLISH VERSE
by Dutt, Romesh Chunder
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No jacket
- Seller
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
London:Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1894. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. London:Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd. 1894. 20pp ads+xv+224pp. Hardcover. In very good, clean condition. Boards lightly soiled and shelfworn, with edges and spine ends worn, and gilt on spine dulled. Edge points gently worn. Internally, a previous owners name written on top of title page and also top of 1st page of ads, otherwise pages clean. The binding is tight but both front and rear hinges have cracked. Overall, a very good copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25249
- Title
- LAYS OF ANCIENT INDIA. SELECTIONS FROM INDIAN POETRY RENDERED INTO ENGLISH VERSE
- Author
- Dutt, Romesh Chunder
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London:Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd.
- Date Published
- 1894
- Keywords
- LITERATURE; POETRY; INDIAN;
Terms of Sale
Parnassus Book Service
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About the Seller
Parnassus Book Service
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts
About Parnassus Book Service
Ben Muse began selling books from the former Knowles General Store in 1959. Now in our third generation, we are a famiy-run, general book store selling new and old (often rare) books as well as issuing specialty catalogs on a variety of subjects: Americana, Latin America, Maritime, Art, the Orient and a variety of other subjects. If you can't find what you are looking for here on the web, please contact us directly at our Yarmouthport shop -- or better yet stop by to browse and talk. We look forward to seeing you.
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- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
- 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....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- 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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