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Official Photographs of the World's Fair and Midway Plaisance with Accurate and Valuable Descriptions of Each, Forming a Complete Panorama of the Most Magnificent Exhibition of Ancient or Modern Times...
by [N/A]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: World's Fair Art Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1894. Hardcover. Olive cloth binding abraded at extremities; spine ends & corners frayed; backstrip browned; boards soiled; top board edges bumped in several places; one point in textblock cracked, front hinge starting; owner's initials inked on front paste-down; pinholing to rear paste-down; leaf edges, outer leaves foxed. No dust jacket. ; Profuse large format black & white photo illustrations.; 8vo; Unpaginated pages .
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- Bookseller
- Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51847
- Title
- Official Photographs of the World's Fair and Midway Plaisance with Accurate and Valuable Descriptions of Each, Forming a Complete Panorama of the Most Magnificent Exhibition of Ancient or Modern Times...
- Author
- [N/A]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- World's Fair Art Co.
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1894
- Bookseller catalogs
- GC: History;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
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Fort Wayne, Indiana
About Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
Open shop with over 125,000 volumes. We try to maintain a good selection in all categories and have a fondness for the odd & obscure. Specialties include History, Nature, Literature, Religion, Mystery, SF, Art, Children's, Humor, Indiana
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- Jacket
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- 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,...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Edges
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- Cloth
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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....
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