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The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1891. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1891. No Edition Remarks. 641 pages. No dust jacket. Half bound brown leather with marbled cloth with a colour illustrated frontis. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages with slight dog-eared pages throughout and rough cut edges to text block. Both hinges are cracked with exposed netting with tears endpapers tapped together and coming away from binding. Boards have visible rubbing and heavier bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and peeling to spine and corners. Splitting to joints as well.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1639134258EMB
- Title
- The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales
- Author
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin and Company
- Date Published
- 1891
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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,...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Half Bound
- ...
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