THE WORKS OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES - 13 VOL SET (COMPLETE)
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Blue Hill, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1892. Hardcover. Very good. 6 x 9 in. Dark blue cloth boards with maroon calf spine labels. Frontis' with tissue guards and plates. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers mildly rubbed with some faint marks. Minimal shelf wear. Spine labels all present and very good. Bindings all tight. Text block edges a touch toned. Pages have occasional light to moderate foxing. Extra shipping may apply. Fic. RGR.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50029
- Title
- THE WORKS OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES - 13 VOL SET (COMPLETE)
- Author
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1892
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Andre Strong Bookseller
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Blue Hill, Maine
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...