Sirenica
by Leith, W. Compton; [Ormonde Maddock Dalton]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, vellum spine toned, owner bookplate on front pastedown.
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: John Lane, the Bodley Head. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, vellum spine toned, owner . bookplate on front pastedown.. 1913. Hardcover. A decoratively bound volume of essays by W. Compton Leith, the pseudonym of Ormonde Maddock Dalton, British art historian and keeper of medieval antiquities at the British Museum. Handsomely bound in three-quarter white vellum stamped in gilt on spine with matching swirled marbled sides. Top edges gilt. 4pp of publishers ads at rear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 178 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39616
- Title
- Sirenica
- Author
- Leith, W. Compton; [Ormonde Maddock Dalton]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, vellum spine toned, owner bookplate on front pastedown.
- Publisher
- John Lane, the Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1913
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Short Stories and Essays;
Terms of Sale
Old Saratoga Books
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About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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- 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...
- 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....
- Vellum
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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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...