My Host The World: Volume III of Persons and Places
by Santayana, George
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
-
Vernon, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
The third book of the author's three volume autobiography. The green cloth cover boards with gilt printing have very mild bumping on the spine. The dust jacket in a mylar cover is unclipped and has the author's photo on the front. The same photo is on the frontis dated Rome, 1950. The binding is secure and the text block is clean, unmarked and very mildly foxed. There is an "A" and the publisher's colophon on the publication page.
149 pp
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Details
- Bookseller
- VFOL UsedBooks (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2011048
- Title
- My Host The World
- Author
- Santayana, George
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 1st Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1953
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Box10
- Bookseller catalogs
- memoir;
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Glossary
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- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...