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A Book of Favourite Modern Ballads: Illustrated with Fifty Engravings, From Drawings by the First Artists
by [W. Kent & Co., Publisher's]
- Used
- fair
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
London: W. Kent & Co, 1860. First Edition. Leather bound. Fair. Octavo. Fair. xiv, [1], 167 pages. Illustrated. Dark red moroccan leather binding with embossed border designs on boards. 5 raised bands and gilt stamped title on spine. Gilt stamped tooled designs on all edges. Bright reddish marbled end sheets. Front board is detached. Rubs to the leather board edges. Small chip and split to the upper spine. Light to moderate scattered foxing to contents. Last page (167) is chipped bottom corner.
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- Bookseller
- Americana Books ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27761
- Title
- A Book of Favourite Modern Ballads
- Author
- [W. Kent & Co., Publisher's]
- Format/Binding
- Leather bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- W. Kent & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1860
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Stone Mountain, Georgia
About Americana Books ABAA
Americana Books in business since 1993 specializing in American History and Americana. Member ABAA ( Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America)
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- 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...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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