The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
William Paterson, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Stated. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Half leather bound to patterned boards, with gilt lettering. Previous owner's names to front blank. Notable foxing and tanning to page edges. Front hinge cracked. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with some loss to spine head. Notable tanning to spine and board edges, with scuffing and marking to boards.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1710948252IEV
- Title
- The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
- Author
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- William Paterson
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...