The One-Hoss Shay - with Its Companion Poems
por Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Usado
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- G+/N/a
- Livreiro
-
Lutterworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
London: Gay and Bird, 1905. Three poems by the American writer with new colour illustrations by Pyle. Brown covers with gilt lettering to spine and front board with gilt decoration on front board and blind-stamped horse and carriage motif repeated on spine. Tissue-guarded frontis, gilt top page edges, 164pp, but only right-hand pp carry text and illustrations so paginated to 82pp. Light wear to extremities, foxing to prelims, neat previous owner's name pencilled on ffep. Book very slightly cocked, but text bloc clean and tight. Ref:082681. First Thus. Buckram. G+/N/a. Illus. by Howard Pyle. 13cmx21cm.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Church Street Books
(GB)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 002681
- Título
- The One-Hoss Shay - with Its Companion Poems
- Autor
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Ilustrador
- Howard Pyle
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - G+
- Condição de sobrecapa
- N/a
- Edição
- First Thus
- Editorial
- Gay and Bird
- Local de publicação
- London
- Data de publicação
- 1905
- Size
- 13cmx21cm
Termos da venda
Church Street Books
payment with order. Refund if description inaccurate
Sobre o Vendedor
Church Street Books
Membro de Biblio desde 2007
Lutterworth, Leicestershire
Sobre Church Street Books
Second-hand book dealer (formerly in a Diss Shop), with a stock of around 2000 books from modern quality literature to reference, aviation, classics and antiquarian
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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....
