Peter Simple
by Marryat, Captain
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Waynesboro, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Little Brown & Co, J. M. Dent, 1896. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Vol First of set edited by Brimley Johnson. Good with bright gilt to spine and front. Untrimmed edges, top edge gilt. Hinge beginning to be exposed at front but still very tight. Foxing thoughout & prev owner's bookplate. Nice illustration and tissue. Some light spotting to cloth and slight lean.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Stone Soup Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 62644
- Title
- Peter Simple
- Author
- Marryat, Captain
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Co, J. M. Dent
- Date Published
- 1896
Terms of Sale
Stone Soup Books
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About the Seller
Stone Soup Books
Biblio member since 2015
Waynesboro, Virginia
About Stone Soup Books
Stone Soup Books, located at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains in downtown Waynesboro, Virginia offers brick and mortar book shopping by appointment, personalized bookselling, book scouting services, & event bookselling services. We love to connect books with people who love them.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...