Peveril of the peak
by Scott, Walter
- Used
- fair
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Archibald Constable, 1822. First Edition. Unknown. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First editions in 4 volumes, complete as issued. Period brown calf over what appear to be the original boards (circulating library bookplates and pabels on covers; heavy rubbing; boards of volume I and IV detached but present, extreme overall rubbing and scuffing to bindings, pages heavily foxed with some marginal smudging).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Arundel Books of Seattle (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0324199
- Title
- Peveril of the peak
- Author
- Scott, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Unknown
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Archibald Constable
- Date Published
- 1822
- Keywords
- Fiction Walter Scott, , , , , , , ,
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Arundel Books of Seattle
7-day return only if not as described (you must notify us immediately on upon receipt of any problem). We pack carefully.
About the Seller
Arundel Books of Seattle
Biblio member since 2005
Seattle, Washington
About Arundel Books of Seattle
Arundel Books stunning new store is located in Seattle's historic Pioneer Square, and has an eclectic stock that will satisfy both the avid reader and discriminating collector.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...