THE GLORY AND THE SHAME OF ENGLAND (1841, VOL. 1 ONLY)
by Lester, C. Edwards
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Bros.. Good+. 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown blind stamped cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Text tight & intact . Pictorial frontispiece & half-title page. A few pages lightly foxed. Spine cloth slightly faded with ends lightly rubbed. Front cover with fade spot. Page 179 with small mended edge tear. Prior owners ink stamp. Vol. 1 (of 2) only. Slums, Anti-slavery. ; 12mo - 7" to 7½" tall; 259 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7705
- Title
- THE GLORY AND THE SHAME OF ENGLAND (1841, VOL. 1 ONLY)
- Author
- Lester, C. Edwards
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Bros.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1841
- Bookseller catalogs
- British History;
Terms of Sale
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
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About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...