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RURAL AFFAIRS: a practical and copiously Illustrated Register of RURAL ECONOMY AND RURAL TASTE including ... (vol 4 only)
by Thomas, J.J. 03a
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG book, no DJ. QUITE NICE BUT: sunned spine, minor cover flaws.
- Seller
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Lyndonville, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Albany: Luther Tucker & Son. VG book, no DJ. QUITE NICE BUT: sunned spine, minor cover flaws.. 1866. 1st edition. Hardcover. VG book, no DJ. NEAR FINE text block. Embossed pebbled brown cloth. Tight. Profusely illustrated with in text wood cuts. . 8"x5",338pp. With an 2nd engraved tp reading: "ILLUSTRATED ANNUAL REGISTER of RURAL AFFAIRS for 1864-5-6." Profusely illustrated with wood cuts. These are mostly in text but several are full page. Near flawless text block, including all three text block edges. Book stays closed when stood on its spine, a good sign of having been read with care, if at all. .
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- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002693
- Title
- RURAL AFFAIRS: a practical and copiously Illustrated Register of RURAL ECONOMY AND RURAL TASTE including ... (vol 4 only)
- Author
- Thomas, J.J. 03a
- Illustrator
- 400 in text engravings.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG book, no DJ. QUITE NICE BUT: sunned spine, minor cover flaws.
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- Luther Tucker & Son
- Place of Publication
- Albany
- Date Published
- 1866
- Keywords
- VG book, no DJ. NEAR FINE text block. Embossed pebbled brown cloth., Tight. Profusely illustrated with in text wood cuts.
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
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- 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
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- Tight
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- Text Block
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- Cloth
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- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
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