The Up-to-Date Waitress
by Janet McKenzie Hill
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Buffalo, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1909. Early Printing. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Pictorial brown boards with gilt lettering to spine. Moderate edgewear and rubbing; minor soil; spine ends and corners bumped and starting to fray. Text block moderately foxed. Binding shaken and tender in places; ffep somewhat roughly excised with a small corner piece of front pastedown also missing. Interior lightly toned and moderately foxed. Half-tone engravings of tables, prepared dishes, appliances, etc. No prev owner names, stickers or stamps. Not ex-library.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Albion Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001459
- Title
- The Up-to-Date Waitress
- Author
- Janet McKenzie Hill
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early Printing
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1909
- Pages
- 148
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Albion Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Albion Books
Biblio member since 2021
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.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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....
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