The White Hills; Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry
by King, Thomas Starr
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Sudbury, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Crosby and Nichols, and Company, 1860. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Brown leather over beveled edged boards. Bright gilt on cover and spine. Gilt dentelle. Raised bands on spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. A little foxing. Binding tight. Lovely illustrations.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bearly Read Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 039175
- Title
- The White Hills; Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry
- Author
- King, Thomas Starr
- Format/Binding
- Full-Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Crosby and Nichols, and Company
- Date Published
- 1860
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- NEW HAMPSHIRE
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Bearly Read Books
Biblio member since 2022
Sudbury, Massachusetts
About Bearly Read Books
Bearly Read Books offers a selection of rare used and antiquarian books with a concentration on the classics, military and children's books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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....
- Dentelle
- Borders on the inner edge of a book with a lacy pattern, most often gilt. Popular in France during the 18th century on covers of...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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