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Roundabout Papers (From the Cornhill Magazine)
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1896. Limited edition, #77 of 1000 copies of the Large Paper edition. Single volume that is part of a larger set of Thackeray's works. Olive linen-like cloth with paper spine label, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed, illustrated with good quality black and white tissue-protected plates. Some darkening to the spine label, very tiny chip to one label corner, light rubbing to the corners and spine ends, small scuffed areas along the lower spine and front joint, good hinges, tight text block, attractive engraved bookplate of Charles Backman MacMurray on the front pastedown, pages very clean and unmarked.. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 030284
- Title
- Roundabout Papers (From the Cornhill Magazine)
- Author
- Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Estes and Lauriat
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1896
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- LITERATURE LIMITED EDITION FICTION CLASSIC
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
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- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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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