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Stories for Christmas Time. McLoughlin Bros No. 787
by Published By McLoughlin Bros
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
East Granby, Connecticut, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1899. Undated, ca. 1899. Worn. Illustrated with a color frontis and black and white engravings throughout. Pictorial hardcover with red cloth spine. Covers rubbed with chipping and spotting, hinges internally cracked but secure, endpapers absent, pages edgeworn, gift notation in pencil on verso of frontis plate which is loosened but not detached, pages clean with some occasional light finger soil to margins. Fair overall.. Hard Cover. Fair. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 044174
- Title
- Stories for Christmas Time. McLoughlin Bros No. 787
- Author
- Published By McLoughlin Bros
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- McLoughlin Bros.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1899
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Keywords
- CHILDRENS ILLUSTRATED
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
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.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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,...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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