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Tyrol
by Baillie-Grohman, W. A
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1908. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Compton, E. Harrison. Gray cloth decorated in red and green with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Top edge gilt. Some pages remain uncut. Top front corner bumped. Corners rubbed and tiny nick to top rear board. Spine ends rubbed with tiny pull tears at head. Cloth wearing through at tail of front joint with fraying. Gilt to top edge faded. Clean pages with mild toning from age. Color plates remain crisp and vibrant. 208 pages.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Crooked House Books & Paper
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000682
- Title
- Tyrol
- Author
- Baillie-Grohman, W. A
- Illustrator
- Compton, E. Harrison
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Adam and Charles Black
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1908
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- A AND C BLACK 6S SERIES EUROPE AUSTRIA TRAVEL ILLUSTRATED COLOR PLATES HISTORY Travel
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
Terms of Sale
Crooked House Books & Paper
Returns accepted if seller is contacted within 7 days of receipt. Buyer pays postage on returns unless merchandise received does not match original description. If paying with check or money order, payment must be received and verified before order can ship.
About the Seller
Crooked House Books & Paper
Biblio member since 2005
Portland, Oregon
About Crooked House Books & Paper
Welcome to the Crooked House, a one-of-a-kind bookstore in Portland, Oregon. Specializing in the beautiful and unusual: books by, for and about women, cookery, domestic science, decorative publishers bindings, weird how-to books and ephemera, 1920s-30s women's magazines, Modern Library, and more.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
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