A New Speaker For Our Little Folks: A Book of Choice Readings and Recitations For Boys and Girls in the Home and School
by Yerkes, Laura Augusta
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Corvallis, Oregon, United States
Item Price
NZ$67.67NZ$54.13
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About This Item
W.E. Scull, 1902. First edition; cover quite soiled/very faintly rubbed, corners rubbed/bumped, spine rubbed/soiled/sunned, spine ends rubbed/bumped; edges age-toned/faintly foxed; front hinge cracked, front pastedown has chipping and 2" tear near hinge, small tear in rfep at fore edge, flipside of frontispiece signed and inscribed by previous owner, textblock unevenly sunned and lightly foxed/soiled sporadically throughout, cracked along gutter of pages 144 and 145; binding slightly shaken; cover, edges, and interior intact and clean, except as noted.. First Edition. hardcover. Good.
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- Bookseller
- Munster & Company, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 617037
- Title
- A New Speaker For Our Little Folks: A Book of Choice Readings and Recitations For Boys and Girls in the Home and School
- Author
- Yerkes, Laura Augusta
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- W.E. Scull
- Date Published
- 1902
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About the Seller
Munster & Company, LLC
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Corvallis, Oregon
About Munster & Company, LLC
Munster & Company is a family owned business with over twenty years of experience in buying and selling books. In October of 2017, we purchased Black Oak Books, originally in Berkeley, California, and moved it all to where we live in Corvallis, Oregon. Our inventory currently features a robust number of titles on mathematics, books about books, literature, poetry, and signed books. New arrivals are listed nearly every day.
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- RFEP
- The portion of the endpaper which is left loose after binding. The first loose page upon opening a book from the rear. It may be...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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,...
- 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...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Sunned
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