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YOUNG LUCRETIA AND OTHER STORIES
by Wilkins, Mary E
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Palmyra, New York, United States
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About This Item
Harper & Brothers. Fair with no dust jacket. 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. E--Wear and rubbing to covers with chips/tears at spine ends and corners. Heavy staining on back cover. Name written on front end pages. Missing one illustrated page. Front hinge paper cracked. A few pages have repair tape along spine edges because the pages are so brittle. Many name on end pages. Binding sound. Pages brittle, but text clean of highlighting, underlining or other pen/pencil marks. A Little Store that's BIG on Service. Tracking on every package. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Village Bookmarket
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27052
- Title
- YOUNG LUCRETIA AND OTHER STORIES
- Author
- Wilkins, Mary E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Date Published
- 1892
- Keywords
- Fiction
Terms of Sale
Village Bookmarket
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Village Bookmarket
Biblio member since 2008
Palmyra, New York
About Village Bookmarket
Book Repair, Professional, Tender Loving Repair of your books in Distress.Books, used, antiquarian, out-of-print, and gifts including Mini Book Earrings.A Little Shop That is BIG on Service.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....
- 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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