The Ohio (Rivers of America Series)
by R. E. Banta
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
William Hodge and Company Limited, 1951. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1951. First UK Edition. 592 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations by Edward Shenton. Pages are bright and clear with light tanning and moderate foxing to free endpapers and text block edges. Pencil inscription to front paste-down, with a few small nicks along text block edge. Minor dog-eared corners. Boards have light shelf-wear with minor corner bumping and slight crushing to spine ends. Faint tanning and foxing to spine. Book has a subtle backward lean. Clipped jacket has light surface wear, with small tears, chips and creasing to spine ends, edges and corners. Lightly tanned and foxed.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1692103833ADA
- Title
- The Ohio (Rivers of America Series)
- Author
- R. E. Banta
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- William Hodge and Company Limited
- Date Published
- 1951
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....