Pear Culture for Profit
by P. T. Quinn
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG- (Very Good Minus)/No Jacket
- Seller
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Buffalo, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Orange Judd Company. Hardcover. VG- (Very Good Minus)/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Copyright 1869, but likely an early reprint. Brown cloth with gilt title and pear motif to front. Minor edgewear and soil, and bumped spine ends and corners. Binding sound, text clean. Interior lightly toned and a little musty. B/w engravings. A few prev owner names in ink to eps, some partially scratched out. Small stamp to rear pastedown. No stickers. Not ex-library. 136 pp.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Albion Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002460
- Title
- Pear Culture for Profit
- Author
- P. T. Quinn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG- (Very Good Minus)
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Orange Judd Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 2.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Albion Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Albion Books
Biblio member since 2021
Buffalo, New York
About Albion Books
Albion Books deals in fine used, out of print and rare books on a wide variety of topics. Specialties include Buffalo/New York history, science, religion, occult, and foreign language. The proprietor has been in the antiquarian book business since 2006.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...