Ivan and Esther: A Tale of Jewish Life in Russia
by Lang, Alice
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
The Religious Tract Society. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Fair ; No jacket. The Religious Tract Society. No date in book, circa 1890-1900. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has dark green cloth-covered boards with gold spine lettering. Cover and spine have green & white Art-Nouveau-style rose and leaf decorations. Front hinge cracked, webbing showing, but intact. Binding also cracked near center. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, with some fraying at tips and spine ends. Covers have moderate surface and edge wear and numerous light stains. Top back 2-inches of spine fabric is cracked and starting to separate from boards. Name in ink on front endpaper. Covers have a few nicks around edges. Back cover wrinkled in places. Pages foxed. Some pages have light brown stains in the margins. NO highlighting or other markings. Black & white frontispiece and illustrations. 159 pages. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
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Details
- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3253
- Title
- Ivan and Esther: A Tale of Jewish Life in Russia
- Author
- Lang, Alice
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- The Religious Tract Society
- Keywords
- Fiction,Judaica,Russia
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Judaica; Russia;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
SmarterRat Books
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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