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Peculiar: A Tale of the Great Transition
by Sargent, Epes
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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High Point, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Carleton, Publisher, 1864. Ninth Printing. Hardcover. Fair with no dust jacket. Ninth Printing. Exlibrary markings. Ffep has been torn from book. Front hinge paper broken, webbing holding. Rear hinge paper cracked. Binding shaken. Pages tanned with foxing. Embossed cloth over boards is worn overall with heaviest wear at extremities of spine and at corners. Gilt lettering faded. Cloth split at joint between spine and front. ; Reading copy of novel set in the Civil War period. ; Ex-Library; 7.5" tall; 500 pages.
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Details
- Seller
- Cat's Cradle Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 3790058
- Title
- Peculiar: A Tale of the Great Transition
- Author
- Sargent, Epes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Ninth Printing
- Publisher
- Carleton, Publisher
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1864
- Keywords
- AMERICA, UNITED STATES, FICTION, LITERATURE, NOVEL, CIVIL WAR
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
Terms of Sale
Cat's Cradle Books
Shipment immediately upon payment. Returns cheerfully accepted. If return results from our error, we refund price of book plus all shipping costs. if return is for any other reason, buyer pays cost of return shipping.
About the Seller
Cat's Cradle Books
Biblio member since 2003
High Point, North Carolina
About Cat's Cradle Books
Cat\\\'s Cradle Books has been buying and selling books online since 1999. Our books include many subjects and titles, but we have especially strong selections in history, politics, literary criticism, biography, religion, and foreign languages.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- 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...
- 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,...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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