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GENOA THE SUPERB the City of Columbus (1st ed)
by Johnson, Virginia W. 02c
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- FINE book, VG DJ(in Brodart). AS NEW BUT: wrinkled spine ends.
- Seller
-
Lyndonville, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Estes and Lauriat. FINE book, VG DJ(in Brodart). AS NEW BUT: wrinkled spine ends.. (1898). 1st edition.. Hardcover. FINE book, VG DJ. Pristine faux vellum white covers lettered & decorated in blue, gilt & red. TEG. 1st edition. 8"x5", 298pp. . Red silk page marker. Plates in b/w with captioned tissue guards. Book stays tightly closed when stood on its spine; likely never read. DJ of red cloth over stiff paper. Author/title in gilt on spine & front. Sunned spine. DJ top spine worn. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001138
- Title
- GENOA THE SUPERB the City of Columbus (1st ed)
- Author
- Johnson, Virginia W. 02c
- Illustrator
- Dozens of full page plates.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New FINE book, VG DJ(in Brodart). AS NEW BUT: wrinkled spine ends.
- Edition
- 1st edition.
- Publisher
- Estes and Lauriat
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- (1898)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- FINE book, VG DJ. Pristine faux vellum white covers lettered &, decorated in blue, gilt & red. TEG. 1st edition. 8"x5", 298pp.
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
Glossary
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- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- 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....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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