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The Settlers at Home
by Martineau, Harriet
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good (Minus)/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London, Manchester and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1899. This is a Very Good (Minus) copy of a Later Printing. Green cloth decorative binding, stamped and filled with gilt on the front cover and spine. There is no publication date, but a prize award label on the front paste-down is dated 1899. Clean text; 231 pages, very bright and supple. There are 40 black & white illustrations by P. Ebbutt. Lightly bumped and rubbed. Front and rear hinges have both cracked. A very attractive small book, that needs some reinforcement. . Later Printing. Decorative Cloth. Very Good (Minus)/No Jacket. Illus. by P. Ebbutt. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004307
- Title
- The Settlers at Home
- Author
- Martineau, Harriet
- Illustrator
- P. Ebbutt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good (Minus)
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Publisher
- George Routledge and Sons
- Place of Publication
- London, Manchester and New York
- Date Published
- 1899
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
We accept checks and money orders in US Dollars. Credit card orders are accepted through Biblio. California residents add appropriate sales tax. Items are returnable for any reason within ten days of receipt (please email or call first before returning item).
About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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