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Progressive Exercises in English Composition
by R.G. Parker
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No DJ
- Seller
-
Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
'New Sterotype Edition, Revised, Enlarged and Improved from the Fifty-Fifth Edition'. Good+ hard cover, no DJ. Brown paper over boards backed with black leather; front cover with titles and student vignette enclosed in festooned frame; rear cover with publisher's advert; spine has thin horizontal gilt bands. Clean, scuffed covers are generally age darkened - all text and titles clear; rubbed and lightly bumped at fore corners; light edge wear; spine gilt bands partially chipped off; if titles were present on spine, they are now gone; lightly rubbed at spine head; rubbed with slight fraying at spine tail; tightly bound; owner name in pencil on front free end paper; some foxing in prelims and very sparsely interior; small ink marginalia on 2 interior pages and occasional faint pencil erasures, otherwise clean interior. 12mo, 143 pp. Cf, OCLC #11075854.
Details
- Bookseller
- Madden Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17028
- Title
- Progressive Exercises in English Composition
- Author
- R.G. Parker
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No DJ
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Boston: Robert S. Davis
- Date Published
- 1851
- Keywords
- PRIMERS, PEDAGOGY, TEACHING, SCHOOLS, ENGLISH, GRAMMAR, SENTENCES
Terms of Sale
Madden Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Madden Books
Biblio member since 2011
Brattleboro, Vermont
About Madden Books
I am a book collector and seller with many years experience. My particular areas of interest are politics, history, law, economics, labor and sociology. I also collect and sell Vermont and New England books, pamphlets, ephemera and magazines. I have a large selection of mysteries and detective books. I have general stock of literature, sciences, arts, world and regional politics & history.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 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...
- 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...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Erasures
- Erasures indicates marks where someone has removed bits of text or content from a book. In Book Arts, erasures can also mean a...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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