Beautiful Thoughts of Life, By A Galaxy of Brilliant Authors
by Ziegler, Rev. J. T. (Editor)
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- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
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Rochester, New York, United States
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About This Item
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A: L. P. Miller & Co, 1889. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 7 3/4" X 10 1/4. FAIR / NO DUST JACKET. 240, 96, 272, 128 pp. Text clean and unmarked. Pages slightly toned. Minor foxing at endpapers. Illustrated throughout with steel engravings, colored plates, and 200 woodcuts. Blue cloth boards decorated with illustrations in black, gilt and silver at front and spine. Boards lightly soiled and sunned, edges and corner rubbed, spine top and tail starting to fray. Front and back hinges broken, case binding intact, but detached from text block. Text block intact and stable. With works by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Daniel March, Theo. S. Cuyler, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles E. Spurgeon, Olivery Wendell Homes, James Russell Lowell, and Dr. John Hall, and others.
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- Bookseller
- RPL Library Store (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BR003075
- Title
- Beautiful Thoughts of Life, By A Galaxy of Brilliant Authors
- Author
- Ziegler, Rev. J. T. (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- L. P. Miller & Co
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A
- Date Published
- 1889
- Size
- 7 3/4" X 10 1/4
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Literature Essays Poetry Anthology Illustrated
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books >$200;
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Glossary
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....