The Wits and Beaux of Society: Volumes 1 and 2
by Wharton, Grace; Wharton, Philip
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Porter & Coates. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jackets. Porter & Coates, Philadelphia. Second edition. No publication date in book. Circa 1890. Two volumes, complete. Half-bound in maroon leather over red and gold marbled paper-covered boards. Five raised bands on spine, with gilt edging and thistle design in four panels; two panels have black leather labels with gold lettering. Matching marbled endpapers. Top pages edges gilt. Gilt ruled borders. Red satin index ribbon in each volume. Black and white photogravure plates by Gebbie & Husson Co. have titled tissue guards. 395 + 396 pages. NOT ex-library. Bindings tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and edges lightly worn; vol. 1 has boards exposed at some tips and on fore edge of front cover. Boards lightly rubbed. Spines darkened to more of a brown color. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. Some pages remain unopened (uncut) along fore edge. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
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- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9506
- Title
- The Wits and Beaux of Society: Volumes 1 and 2
- Author
- Wharton, Grace; Wharton, Philip
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Porter & Coates
- Keywords
- Biography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- 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...
- 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...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
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