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An Artist's Models
by Aldin, Cecil
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Fair ; No jacket. 1930 Charles Scribner's Sons. Oversize hardcover, 7.5 x 11.25 inches, has blue cloth-covered boards with gold spine and cover lettering. Color frontispiece with tissue guard. Twenty color plates of dog illustrations, including frontispiece, illustrated by the author. 80 pages. Hinges NOT cracked. Binding loosening, but intact and undamaged. Covers have moderate edge wear and surface rubbing, with spotting and darkening around all edges and spine. Spine ends worn and frayed, with small tears. Pages foxed, heavily at the first and last and lessening to almost nothing by about 20 pages inward from both covers. Some plates have spotting as well, typically at the edges. One plate is partially detached; one plate has a chipped bottom corner. Pages lightly tanned, more so at periphery, but still supple. Dust jacket is missing. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
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Details
- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13682
- Title
- An Artist's Models
- Author
- Aldin, Cecil
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Date Published
- 1930
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Animals,Dogs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Animals; Dogs;
Terms of Sale
SmarterRat Books
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About the Seller
SmarterRat Books
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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,...
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