The Tale of Balen
by Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- G+ (Good Plus)/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Buffalo, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. 1st US Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. G+ (Good Plus)/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. From the collection of Henry and Nina Cornell (nee Bayard), descendants of Ezra Cornell, Peter Stuyvesant, and the prominent Bayard family of Pittsburgh, PA. Olive cloth with gilt lettering and knotwork style decoration. Spine and edges moderately browned; minor edgewear; slightly bumped spine ends and corners, with fraying just starting at the former. Top edge gilt. Binding tight, text clean. Interior lightly toned and foxed. Prev owner name "Eleanor Bayard" in pencil to ffep with 1897 date. No stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. 132 pages.
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- Bookseller
- Albion Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001602
- Title
- The Tale of Balen
- Author
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - G+ (Good Plus)
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st US Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1896
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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About the Seller
Albion Books
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Buffalo, New York
About Albion Books
Albion Books deals in fine used, out of print and rare books on a wide variety of topics. Specialties include Buffalo/New York history, science, religion, occult, and foreign language. The proprietor has been in the antiquarian book business since 2006.
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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...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- G+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good. Good is defined as "describes the average used and worn book...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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