New France and New England
by Fiske, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin & Co, 1904. 146/250. Hardcover. Larger Octavo; G-; 1/2 bound brown leather spine with gilt text; no jacket; exterior shows some age toning to front and rear marbled panels; leather spine and edges have worn edges; spine head edge somewhat frayed; raised bands to spine; gilt decorations to spine; sturdy boards; textblock exterior fore and tail edges have modestly age toned; top edge gilt; deckled fore and tail edges; slight defect to hinges; marbled endpapers; frontispiece with tissue guard; illustrated; some plates with tissue guards; slight plate offset to facing pages; light stain to gutter to several pages toward front of text; otherwise interior pages good; numbered copies; this no. 146 of 250; pp 338. 1348251. FP New Rockville Stock.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1348251
- Title
- New France and New England
- Author
- Fiske, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 146/250
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin & Co
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1904
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About the Seller
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Rockville, Maryland
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
- 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...