Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, in Four Volumes
by Carlyle, Thomas
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Colonial Press Company. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good+ ; No jackets. Colonial Press Company. Circa 1895. No date stated. Four volumes. Beacon Edition of the Complete Works of Thomas Carlyle. NOT ex-library. Hardcovers have maroon cloth-covered boards with paper spine labels. Deckle fore edges. Tissued frontispiece. Tissued black and white plates. Hinges NOT cracked. Volume 1 binding cracked at half title page; webbing visible, but pages not loose. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, with minor fraying at tips. Covers have some light smudges and specks. Spine labels are tanned and have small chips at some corners. Endpapers lightly foxed. Pages clean and unmarked. Some page edges are uncut. 487 + 470 + 466 + 465 pages. No dust jackets. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
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- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6155
- Title
- Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, in Four Volumes
- Author
- Carlyle, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Colonial Press Company
- Keywords
- Literature,Essays
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Essays;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio
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- Cracked
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- Half Title
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- Edges
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- Jacket
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- Good+
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- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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