FREAKS OF FORTUNE: Or, Half Round the World/Oliver Optic's Starry Flag Series #2 (Two)
by Optic, Oliver [Adams, William Taylor]
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard, 1868. 304 pp. Original red cloth covers, soiled and rubbed. Spine darkened. Half of a cup ring on front cover. Light scattered foxing. Few leaves roughly opened. Notes in purple colored pencil to verso of last leaf. Illust. w/ 7 b/w plates.. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 543
- Title
- FREAKS OF FORTUNE: Or, Half Round the World/Oliver Optic's Starry Flag Series #2 (Two)
- Author
- Optic, Oliver [Adams, William Taylor]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Publisher
- Lee and Shepard
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1868
- Keywords
- LITERATURE FICTION GENERAL AUTHORS OPTIC OLIVER ADAMS WILLIAM TAYLOR 1822 1897 LITERARY WORKS OLIVER OPTIC'S STARRY FLAG SERIES
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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Shoemaker Booksellers
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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