Bright and Early. A Bookseller's Memories of Edinburgh and Lasswade
by Cairns, J. B
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Edinburgh: Cairns Brothers, 1953. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Octavo. 292 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in red cloth. Moderate wear to the binding. The corners show a little outward bowing. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. Prior owner's signature on the front flyleaf. Text is clean. Illustrated with black and white plates and with a color frontis.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 044838
- Title
- Bright and Early. A Bookseller's Memories of Edinburgh and Lasswade
- Author
- Cairns, J. B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Cairns Brothers
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1953
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1953; J. B. Cairns; Bookseller; Bookselling; Books; Antiquarian; Edinburgh; Scotland; Scottish.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books on Books & Bibliography; Great Britain;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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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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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...