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Yule-Tide Stories. A Collection of Scandinavian and North German Popular Tales and Traditions, from the Swedish, Danish, and German
by Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Corvallis, Oregon, United States
Item Price
NZ$159.75NZ$127.80
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About This Item
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853. xv, 504 pp. 18 x 12 cm. Half leather binding with marbled paper covered boards, with five raised bands and gilt titling to spine, all edges stained red. Rubbing to boards and spine, with wear to corners of boards and some wear to head of spine. 15 mm split at head of rear joint, with splitting all along front joint which seems to have been repaired with glue. Dust soiling to top edge of text block. Some small areas of damage along hinge of front endpapers where excess glue has made the paper stick to itself. Previous owner's name in pencil on first blank page with some small penciled notations on facing page. Interior otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding appears quite firm.. Hard Cover. Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Munster & Company, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 626375
- Title
- Yule-Tide Stories. A Collection of Scandinavian and North German Popular Tales and Traditions, from the Swedish, Danish, and German
- Author
- Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Henry G. Bohn
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1853
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Munster & Company, LLC
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Munster & Company, LLC
Biblio member since 2018
Corvallis, Oregon
About Munster & Company, LLC
Munster & Company is a family owned business with over twenty years of experience in buying and selling books. In October of 2017, we purchased Black Oak Books, originally in Berkeley, California, and moved it all to where we live in Corvallis, Oregon. Our inventory currently features a robust number of titles on mathematics, books about books, literature, poetry, and signed books. New arrivals are listed nearly every day.
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- 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....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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