IN THE LEVANT
by Warner, Charles Dudley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good-/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
-
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston, MA: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. 374 pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine, and gilt decoration on front cover. Binding moderately soiled and rubbed w/ wear to extremities. Covers slightly cocked. Approx. 1" closed tear to outer margin of front endpaper. Previous bookseller's small label on rear paste-down. Few leaves dog-eared.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good-/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15221
- Title
- IN THE LEVANT
- Author
- Warner, Charles Dudley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- James R. Osgood and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1877
- Keywords
- WORLD HISTORY TRAVEL DESCRIPTION MIDDLE EAST JAFFA JERUSALEM HOLY PLACES HOLY CITY JERICHO BETHLEHEM MAR SABA ARMENIAN PATRIARCH MOSES SYRIAN COAST BEYROUT LEBANON BA'ALBEK DAMASCUS CYPRUS RHODES AEGEAN ISLANDS SMYRNA EPHESUS DARDANELLES CONSTANTINOPL
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Shoemaker Booksellers
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About the Seller
Shoemaker Booksellers
Biblio member since 2007
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
About Shoemaker Booksellers
Established in 1992, we are family owned and operated. We strive to provide excellent customer service and our inventory is hand picked for the best quality and subject matter. Our diverse inventory of used, rare and out of print books, as well as ephemera, covers most areas of interest and favors more the uncommon or unusual titles.
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...
- 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.
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...