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Swinton's Advanced Fourth Reader
by Swinton, William
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York and Chicago : Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor and Company , 1886. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 384 pages. Hardcover bound in brown cloth with a black leather spine. There is significant wear to the binding, which is heavily rubbed and bumped at the edges. The back cover in particular shows scuff marks and other markings. Secure inner hinges. The outer edges of the text block are toned. There is foxing and/or spotting to the end papers and sporadically throughout the text. The text is toned but otherwise clean and sound. Contains some illustrations.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051322
- Title
- Swinton's Advanced Fourth Reader
- Author
- Swinton, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York and Chicago
- Date Published
- 1886
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 1.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1886; William Swinton; Advanced Reader; Speaker; Reading; Language Studies; Primary Education; Composition; Comprehension; Fourth Grade; 19th Century.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books; Education;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
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