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Praeterita - Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life
by Ruskin, John
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
New York: Merrill and Baker, 1900 459 pp with one plate portrait of Ruskin frontis with glasine guard. Text is clean, tight and unmarked.. Top page edges gilt, front edge deckled. Front gutter cracked after title page but holding. Green buckram boards with gold-stamped scrolling along spine are clean with light wear to extremities.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 6" x 9".
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- Bookseller
- Catron Grant Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 800967
- Title
- Praeterita - Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life
- Author
- Ruskin, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Merrill and Baker
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1900
- Bookseller catalogs
- English Literature and History; Fine Arts;
- Size
- 6" x 9"
Terms of Sale
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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. Books must be returned in the condition in which they were sold. No returns on books valued at less than $9.00.
About the Seller
Catron Grant Books
Biblio member since 2012
Rio Rancho, New Mexico
About Catron Grant Books
Specializing in olderbooks on travel and exploration in Asia, and World War II Pacific and Southeast Asia.Online sales and antiquarian book shows in the American West.
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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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