Elsie Venner A Romance of Destiny
by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Bishop, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton and Mifflin. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1897. Hardcover. Very good hardcover. No dust jacket. Minor shelf wear and discoloration/spotting to covers. Attractive and bright, especially considering age. Gilt top page edges. Interior clean, but some age discoloration to edges, minor soiling to bottom page edges. Previous owner signature written on the front end page (dated 1898). Front hinge is cracking. ; 7.95 x 5.10 x 1.45 inches; 487 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Range & River Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30158
- Title
- Elsie Venner A Romance of Destiny
- Author
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Houghton and Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1897
- Keywords
- GENERAL Fiction, July
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About the Seller
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Bishop, California
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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...
- 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.
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...