THE ADVENTURE OF LIFE: Being the William Belden Nobel Lectures for 1911
by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Blue Hill, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 157 p. 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. Red cloth binding, gold lettering on spine, top end of text block gilt. Condition of the book is VERY GOOD: light wear and light soiling to covers and spine, spine faded, edges of text block lightly foxed, pages clean, binding tight.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3662
- Title
- THE ADVENTURE OF LIFE
- Author
- Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1912
- Bookseller catalogs
- Religion;
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...