Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900
by Waddington, Mary King
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1903. Hardcover, blue cloth ruled and lettered in gold, sans dust-jacket. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with photographs. Neat gift inscription on half-title, dated August 8th, 1903. The author's husband served as Ambassador to Russia at the time of Alexander III's coronation and latter a the Cout of St. James in Great Britain. Cloth soiled and spotted, with spine lightly sunned albeit gilt lettering still bright. A sound, internally very clean copy of a rare book. Good.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003382
- Title
- Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900
- Author
- Waddington, Mary King
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribners Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1903
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography and Biography; Alibris4;
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...