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A TERRIBLE TEMPTATION
by Charles Reade
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with no Dust Jacket
- Seller
-
Delaware, Ohio, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
P. F. Collier & Sons. Fair with no Dust Jacket. 1900. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Series: The Works Of Charles Reade, In 16 Volumes, Vol. 5; Vol. 5; Dark red covers with embossing designs on front. Gold lettering on spine. All turns have rubbing and wear. There is fraying at top and bottom edges of spine. Front hinge is cracked. Front end page, illustrated plate, and title page are loose, but in position. Pages are browning with age. No dust jacket. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Reading Well Bookstore
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7554
- Title
- A TERRIBLE TEMPTATION
- Author
- Charles Reade
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no Dust Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- P. F. Collier & Sons
- Date Published
- 1900
- Keywords
- Fiction, LITERATURE, Antiquarian
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
The Reading Well Bookstore
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
The Reading Well Bookstore
Biblio member since 2020
Delaware, Ohio
About The Reading Well Bookstore
The Reading Well Bookstore is an online only business offering good to excellent condition books that are used, vintage, and antiquarian.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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,...
- 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
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