THE VALOR OF IGNORANCE
by Lea, Homer
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
-
Deerfield, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1909. hardcover. Very good. Octavo, navy blue cloth covers with gilt titles, xxii [2] 343 [1] pages. Includes maps and frontis. portrait of the author. Former owner bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. Some pages nopened, and a couple of rough openings.No dust jacket. 092508E
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alkahest Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000020598
- Title
- THE VALOR OF IGNORANCE
- Author
- Lea, Homer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper and Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1909
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Alkahest Books
Biblio member since 2012
Deerfield, Illinois
About Alkahest Books
Alkahest Books was established in1984. We started as an open shop on Central St. in Evanston, IL, and sold books there until 2002 and later were part of Chicago Rare Book Center which closed in 2017. We are members of the Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association, and IOBA and sell both online and at book fairs. International customers should ask for a shipping quote before ordering as the rates given are only for smaller books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...