The School-Boy
by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No DJ
- Seller
-
Southampton, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Osgood, 1879. Edition Not Specified. Good/No DJ. 12mo = 7-9". n/a. Printing Not Spec. Brown cloth covers are bumped and worn on top/bottom of spine and corners. Silver lettering on front and spine, with an illustration of a butterfly and bird in gilt. Top of spine has small tear. Covers are soiled, ink spot on front cover, light areas on back cover, mildew spotting. Front hinge is cracked and cover is loose. Frontispiece is almost completely loose. Foxing throughout. Illustrated endpapers. Gilt fore edging.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Heritage Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- F13994
- Title
- The School-Boy
- Author
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Illustrator
- n/a
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No DJ
- Edition
- Edition Not Specified
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Osgood
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1879
- Pages
- 80pp
- Size
- 12mo = 7-9"
- Keywords
- romantic era
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Heritage Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives not as described or damaged.
About the Seller
Heritage Books
Biblio member since 2008
Southampton, Massachusetts
About Heritage Books
Our bookshop is located in the historic town library building of Southampton, Massachusetts. Southampton lies within the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts with a view of Pomeroy Mountain to the West and Mt. Tom to the North. It is situated between the artistic, vibrant communities of Easthampton and Northampton and the city of Westfield. We have a collection of over 40,000 books with many more waiting to be unboxed and squeezed onto our shelves. The large double-door front entrance will lead you to our main floor where we hold a wide range of fiction and non-fiction titles, as well as a good selection of scarce and rare editions. The original fireplace is surrounded by hardbacks and you can peer out the original nine-foot windows. Take the staircase to the basement and you will find our large children's section and many shelves full of paperbacks. Our physical address is 225 College Highway/Route 10. Our mailing address is 241 College Highway & Clark St. P.O. Box 100 Southampton, MA 01073. The store hours indicated are by appointment only Monday through Friday, and Saturday and Sunday you can stop in. Please call to schedule an appointment if you can't make it to the store on the weekends from 11 am to 3 pm.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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,...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Mildew
- Mildew is an all-too-common affliction that plagues books and erodes their collectibility, value and preservation. A fungus...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...