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Vanished Towers and Chimes of Flanders
by George Wharton Edwards
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/none
- Seller
-
Gleneden Beach, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1916. First Edition. Publishers pictorial binding. Very Good Plus/none. George Wharton Edwards. First Edition, 1916, quarto, 11.25 tall by 8.25 wide, 212 pages including index, 30 color illustrations with captioned tissue guards, top edge gilt, protected in a custom mylar sleeve, front hinge cracked but nicely repaired, book tight and square with sharp corners, No previous owner bookplate or writing, Book is at least Very Good Plus or better, bright gilt title illustration and title to front board, spine a bit tarnished. A very solid First Edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pacific Coast Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3855
- Title
- Vanished Towers and Chimes of Flanders
- Author
- George Wharton Edwards
- Illustrator
- George Wharton Edwards
- Format/Binding
- Publishers pictorial binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- none
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Penn Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1916
- Keywords
- Flanders, George Wharton Edwards
Terms of Sale
Pacific Coast Books
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About the Seller
Pacific Coast Books
Biblio member since 2015
Gleneden Beach, Oregon
About Pacific Coast Books
Pacific Coast Books specializes in quality of books of interest from our store on the Central Oregon Coast. We are proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and have been buying and selling books for almost 20 years. Visit our website at www.Pacifc CoastBooks.net. Please feel free to call or email with any titles you would like to add to your collection. Only a small fraction of our inventory is online. We buy book collections.
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....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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,...
- 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...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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