The White Hills; Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry
by King, Thomas Starr
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Sudbury, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Crosby and Nichols, 1863. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Burgundy pebbled cloth over beveled-edged boards. Gilt star on front board, spine tanned. Some wear and rubbing on edges. Top edge of spine a little pulled. Bookplate on front pastedown. Name on endpaper. A little marginal soiling on a few pages. B/W frontis and plates throughout, including map.
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- Bookseller
- Bearly Read Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 070850
- Title
- The White Hills; Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry
- Author
- King, Thomas Starr
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Crosby and Nichols
- Date Published
- 1863
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
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About the Seller
Bearly Read Books
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Sudbury, Massachusetts
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- 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....
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- 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...
- 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...
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