New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1911. Hardcover. Purple cloth over boards, gilt lettering on top pane and spine. Spine heavily sunned, some sunning, fading on front panel. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Binding sound. Top edge gilt. There is some foxing throughout. Numerous drawings and photographs tipped in. This is the autobiography of the former canon of Westminster and Clerk of Closet to the King, also former Bishop of Ripon. Lacking DJ. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 332 pages .

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Bookseller: James F. Balsley, Bookseller (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 10104
Title: SOME PAGES OF MY LIFE
Author: Carpenter, Rt. Rev. W. Boyd
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1911
Bookseller catalogs: Autobiography; British History; Theology;

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My business is strictly on-line sales. I carry an inventory of about 2000 books. About half of these are modern fiction. Most of the rest are scholarly academic books concentrated in the areas of natural science, philosophy, history, and literature.

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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....
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
Top Edge Gilt: Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
Tipped In: Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
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...