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A Letter to a Friend Upon the Occasion of the Death of an Intimate Friend, Together with Christian Morals
by Browne, Sir Thomas
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press, 1923. Book. Fair. Hardcover. Limited. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover, light tan linen spine over paper covered boards. Printed paper spine label. 68 pages; (ii) blank, (iv) Notes, (i) Printer's mark of golden cockerel blocked at the foot of the page, (i) blank. One of 115 copies of which 105 are for sale. Un-numbered out-of-series copy. Printed on hand-laid deckle edged paper. No previous ownership marks. Covers rough with age toning to boards and old damp-stain visible on upper front cover and spine. Paper label lightly chipped and stained. Interior shows darkening to upper gutter on first three leaves, else clean and unmarked. Acceptable as is but should be recased. Wide margined text block very good or better. A fair copy. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018318
- Title
- A Letter to a Friend Upon the Occasion of the Death of an Intimate Friend, Together with Christian Morals
- Author
- Browne, Sir Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- Limited
- Publisher
- Golden Cockerel Press
- Place of Publication
- Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- Golden Cockerel Press
- Bookseller catalogs
- Private Press;
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
We carry a general stock of antiquarian books with a focus on Charles Dickens, 19th and 20th century literature, history and biography.
Glossary
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- 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...
- 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....
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
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