Ancestors in Silhouette cut by August Edouart
by Illustrative Notes and Biographical Sketches by Mrs. F. Nevill Jackson
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good- (Good)
- Seller
-
Bath, Maine, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London and New York: John Lane. Green cloth covers worn and moderately scuffed with some browning, rubbing and small stain to black and white silhouette set into front cover. Front cover and spine detached from text block (still strongly attached at back cover/back of text block). First ten pages detached with some creasing to page edges, two pages have chips and tearing along top edge. Rest of pages still bound into spine/text block - some browning to text pages, silhouette pages only slightly yellowed. Inscribed by author. Binding fair-, covers fair, pages near very good. . Good- (Good). Hardcover. 1921.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 097747
- Title
- Ancestors in Silhouette cut by August Edouart
- Author
- Illustrative Notes and Biographical Sketches by Mrs. F. Nevill Jackson
- Illustrator
- August Edouart
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good- (Good)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John Lane
- Place of Publication
- London and New York
- Date Published
- 1921
Terms of Sale
Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop
Biblio member since 2013
Bath, Maine
About Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop
We got started selling online as Vintage Quaker Books in 2013 and opened a storefront under the name The Corner Bookshop in 2020. Vintage Quaker Books sells books by, for, and about Quakers (Religious Society of Friends) and a variety of other Christian books. The Corner Bookshop is a general used bookstore located in a cozy basement under/behind the main shopping street of Front Street in Bath, Maine.
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- Edges
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- New
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- Cloth
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- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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....
- Fair-
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