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The Young Lady's Mentor: A Guide to the Formation of Character
by A Lady
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Winston, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia, PA: Theodore Bliss & Co., 1866. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, marbled paper covered boards with half leather to spine. Exterior is heavily worn as are the edges and corners. Leather on spine also shows heavy wear and chipping with the exterior hinge on front board having leather cracked with binding string showing. Hinge crack can also be seen on the interior front though text pages are not affected. No publication date listed - nothing on the title page and copyright page is blank. Presumed publication date of 1866 based on the publisher name on the title page being listed as "Theodore Bliss & Co." instead of "H. C. Beck & Theodore Bliss" - which is shown on printings of 1851-1855. There is also a lightly penciled name on the second front end page along with a date of December 25, 1872. No other handwriting found in the book. Text pages are bright for their age with only minor foxing and toning present though the illustration pages are dark as they were done on a different type of paper. There are two pre-frontispiece illustrations which still have the original tissue guard present and attached. Note: The second illustration does show the proper publishers name of Peck & Bliss. This may be an earlier printing but we listed the 1866 date as this was how the book was advertised in an 1866 publication entitled "Uniform Trade List Circular: For the Benefit of Publishers, Booksellers, News Dealers, and Stationers (November 1866 edition)".
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- Bookseller
- Yesterday's Book Shop (Member IOBA)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2210612
- Title
- The Young Lady's Mentor: A Guide to the Formation of Character
- Author
- A Lady
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Theodore Bliss & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA
- Date Published
- 1866
- Pages
- 284
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Bookseller catalogs
- 19th Century; Non Fiction; Education and Yearbooks;
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About the Seller
Yesterday's Book Shop (Member IOBA)
Biblio member since 2021
Winston, Georgia
About Yesterday's Book Shop (Member IOBA)
Yesterday's Book Shop is an independent, family-owned establishment. The store first opened in 1966 under the name Collector's Corner and was located in Western Maryland. The Collector's Corner dealt mainly in books but also sold stamps and assorted ephemera. In 1975 the name was changed to Yesterday's Book Shop when the store only offered books and printed matter. In the early 2000s the brick and mortar store was closed and now we only sell online.
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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,...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
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