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XXII BALLADES IN BLUE CHINA
by Lang, A
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Kegan Paul & Co.. Very Good. 1880. First Edition. Soft Cover. Volume in a white vellum wrapper stored in a slip case & inside a blue cloth folder. Leather spine with raised bands and gilt title. Slip case is slightly color faded at edges. Poetry; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 80 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15269
- Title
- XXII BALLADES IN BLUE CHINA
- Author
- Lang, A
- Format/Binding
- Soft Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Kegan Paul & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1880
- Keywords
- Poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
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About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Slip Case
- A protective sleeve, often made of decorative cardboard or leather which houses a book. It is open on one end, so as to allow...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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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