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Voltaire's Alphabet of Wit
by Paul McPharlin
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Peter Pauper Press, 1955. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1955. No Edition Remarks. 78 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over illustrated paper covered boards with lettering. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb marking throughout. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Pen annotations and marginalia to a few pages. Bookseller sticker stuck to front pastedown. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Slight crushing to spine ends. Lettering is bright and clear. Minor wear marks to boards. Unclipped Jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Pen markings to flap. Moderate tanning to interior flaps, panels and spine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1643024161MEP
- Title
- Voltaire's Alphabet of Wit
- Author
- Paul McPharlin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Peter Pauper Press
- Date Published
- 1955
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...