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The Orthoepist: A Pronouncing Manual, Including a Considerable Number of the Names of Foreign Authors, Artists, Etc., That are Often Mispronounced
by Ayres, Alfred
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1891. Former owner's signature on ffep, dated January, 1894; Retired library copy, usual stamps, stickers and labels, else textblock clean and tight, decorative endpapers. All edges gilt. Gilt embossed green cloth, edge-worn boards, light fraying at head and foot of spine, bumped corners, library label on spine, lightly surface rubbed covers.; Several pages of light pencil marginalia; 208p.. Early Reprint. Gilt Embossed Green Cloth. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Ex-Library Hardcover.
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- Seller
- Clausen Books, RMABA
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- SB14986
- Title
- The Orthoepist: A Pronouncing Manual, Including a Considerable Number of the Names of Foreign Authors, Artists, Etc., That are Often Mispronounced
- Author
- Ayres, Alfred
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Early Reprint
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Company
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1891
- Keywords
- Language Arts, Word Craft, Vocabulary Pronunciation
- Bookseller catalogs
- Reference;
- Size
- 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Clausen Books, RMABA
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About the Seller
Clausen Books, RMABA
Biblio member since 2006
Colorado Springs, Colorado
About Clausen Books, RMABA
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- Cloth
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- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
- 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....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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