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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: POET, DRAMATIST, AND MAN [SIGNED]
by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Rockville, Maryland, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1900. Special Edition [#53/150]. Hardcover. Thick octavo, xviii pages, 421 pages; VG-/G+; white spine with gold gilt lettering; white cloth dust jacket; marked shelfwear and rubbing to the jacket; significant soiling to the jacket, particularly to the spine and the fore edges of the front and back jacket flaps; top and bottom edges of the jacket are fraying; multiple minor stains to the front and back of DJ; creasing to the jacket at the head and tail of the spine; minor open tears to the "THE MACMILLAN COMPANY" logo at the tail of the spine; marked creasing and fraying to the corners of the jacket flaps; spine is slightly cocked; marked bumping to the corners of the boards; top edge of the text block is gilt; fore and bottom edges of the text block are deckled; minor soiling to the text block edges; significant rubbing and soiling to the bottom edges of the boards; gutter is split and webbing is visible between front and back paste downs and endpapers; bookplate of previous owner to the front paste down; rubbing from bookplate to ffep; marked age-toning and soiling to front and back paste downs and free endpapers; marked creasing to ffep; inked by previous owner on verso ffep; signed flat by Mabie on verso half-title; minor soiling and age-toning to the pages; minor foxing/spotting to the pages, particularly tissue guards and their immediately following pages throughout the text block (title page, 32, 46, 90, 172, 256, 286, 316, 348); gutter split and webbing visible between pages 48 & 49 and 128 & 129); fore edges unopened every few pages from 329-368; shelved Above Shakespeare. 1357506. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1357506
- Title
- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: POET, DRAMATIST, AND MAN [SIGNED]
- Author
- Mabie, Hamilton Wright
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Special Edition [#53/150]
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1900
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Rockville, Maryland
About Second Story Books, ABAA
DC's Oldest Rare and Used Bookstore, Second Story Books operates two open shops in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. We have a large internet presence including this website, Amazon, and Ebay, accredited appraisals member ASA, and an in house book binder. For more information go to www.secondstorybooks.com
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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....
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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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