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The Last Days of Pompeii
by BULWER-LYTTON, Edward
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
London: James Nisbet & Co, 1903. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. Illustrations by Lancelot Speed. Prize binding in contemporary tree calf with the Boston house school crest stamped in gold on the front board, gilt spine divided into six panels with brown titling label, gold tooling on the edges of the boards, turn-ins stamped in blind, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Bookseller's ticket "J. Pulsford, The Royal Library" on back pastedown. Owner's name: "Ethel Hayes Sadler, Senior French, July 1904" on front fly leaf. Rubbing to the joints and edges of the boards, the front joint is split with the front board holding firm, else very good. The Boston house School for Girls, founded in Chiswick in 1827, was the inspiration for Miss Pinkerton's Academy in Thackeray's Vanity Fair. The school moved to Eastbourne in the late 19th century.
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- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 439008
- Title
- The Last Days of Pompeii
- Author
- BULWER-LYTTON, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- James Nisbet & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1903
- Keywords
- Bindings, History
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Gloucester City, New Jersey
About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., founded in 1985, specializes in first editions of 20th Century American and English fiction. Our inventory of over 75,000 first editions includes: African-American literature & history, Mysteries, Detective Fiction, Drama, Books into Film and Sports books. We routinely issue extensively illustrated color catalogs, available by subscription. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA)and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Tom Congalton, founder of Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., actively promotes the ethics and standards of these professional organizations and served as President of the ABAA from 2000 to 2002.
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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...
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