Portraits: Real and Imaginary
by BOYD, ERNEST
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: George H. Doran, 1924. First Edition. Cloth Spine. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Bound with mint green cloth spine, brown gilt patterned paper to boards, title labels to spine and front board. Cloth to spine rubbed at head and heel and overall dust darkened, title label to spine dust and damp soiled with some scuffs and a little missing portion along edge, paper to boards worn down to boards at corners and edges, and crumbling a little, title label to front with a little dust soil, dust soil and small sticker shadow to front free endpaper, blank following with dust soil.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26774
- Title
- Portraits: Real and Imaginary
- Author
- BOYD, ERNEST
- Format/Binding
- Cloth Spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- George H. Doran
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1924
Terms of Sale
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Biblio member since 2012
Toronto, Ontario
About Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Interesting and unusual books and printed matter. Visual items, illustrated books, private press, mythology/folklore, modern first editions. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada (ABAC) and theIndependent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA)
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
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