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The Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson (Leather Binding)
by Tennyson, Alfred
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Traverse City, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. Good+. N.D.. Hardcover. Original publisher's brown leather binding; leather spine and corner tips, 5 raised bands with gilt decorations in the compartments & red leather spine label with gilt lettering. Marbled boards and end papers. Top edge gilt. The marbled end papers are worn through at edges of covers, one corner tip slightly showing through. Contents clean, bright and tight. No date to this publication, but probably about 1900. A pretty book despite the wear to the marbled paper on the edges of the covers. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 713 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Peninsula Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19223
- Title
- The Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson (Leather Binding)
- Author
- Tennyson, Alfred
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Publisher
- Thomas Y. Crowell
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- N.D.
- Keywords
- Poetry, Great Britain
Terms of Sale
Peninsula Books
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About the Seller
Peninsula Books
Biblio member since 2023
Traverse City, Michigan
About Peninsula Books
Peninsula Books has been providing fine and rare books to collectors, institutions and the book trade since 1980. We have a select general stock of books and specialize in Americana in its many forms. We welcome your inquiries and are always happy to answer any questions about our books. Email is usually the quickest way to have your questions answered.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- 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....
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
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