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THACKERAYANA, NOTES AND ANECDOTES
by THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Light edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong, 1875. Light red silk-covered boards. Panelled spine with gilt title and designs. Top edge gilt. Original cloth cover and spine bound-in a rear. Half-title present. Color frontispiece with tissue-guard. Slight brown discoloration top of frontispiece and title-page. See photo. "Depicting humorous incidents in his school life, and favourite scenes and characters in the books of his every-day reading". Illustrated throughout in black and white. Several full-page color illustrations as well. Quite a clean copy. 494pp. . First American Edition. 3/4 Crimson Morocco. Light edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jacket. Thick Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014501
- Title
- THACKERAYANA, NOTES AND ANECDOTES
- Author
- THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light edge and Corner Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1875
- Size
- Thick Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Thackeray, Color Plates
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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