Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1891. Fourth Edition; Later Printing. Hard cover. Olive cloth cover with gilt lettering on spine and front. There is light wear at edges, cover is clean. Binding sound. Black endpapers, preliminary leaves have some speckled foxing, light foxing to edges of text block. Pages clean and unmarked. Lacking DJ. This is a very nice copy of an uncommon book. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 263 pages .

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Bookseller: James F. Balsley, Bookseller (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 9476
Title: SPEECH AND MANNERS FOR HOME AND SCHOOL
Author: Kirkland, E. S. Miss
Format/Binding: Hard cover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
Edition: Fourth Edition; Later Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: A. C. McClurg & Company
Place of Publication: Chicago
Date Published: 1891
Bookseller catalogs: Education; Children & Juvenile;

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James F. Balsley, Bookseller

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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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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...
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....
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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....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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...