Sweet Danger
by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London, New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1892. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. 296, (24) pages. Hardcover in blue cloth with red and silver illustration on front cover. Binding is soiled from age and wear. Spine is rubbed, some of the silver gilt is rubbed off. Pencilled notation on front flyleaf. Bookstore stamp on front flyleaf. Gutter is cracked between half title page and frontispiece. Occasional soiling of pages. Printing was inconsistent. Some text shows more boldly than others and some text has parts of letters missing but enough of the text remains to understand the context. Illustrations throughout.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 037297
- Title
- Sweet Danger
- Author
- Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- F. Tennyson Neely
- Place of Publication
- London, New York
- Date Published
- 1892
- Keywords
- 1892; Ella Wheeler Wilcox; Fiction; Literature; Drama;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
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