The American Claimant
de Twain, Mark ( Clemens, Samuel ) 1835 – 1910
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Librería
-
melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Chatto and Windus, London, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover (Embossed Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Dan Beard and Hal Hurst. The Weather in This Book and list of illustrations. The text is illustrated with black-and-white drawings by Dan Beard and Hal Hurst, including a tissue guarded frontispiece – the tissue guard has become a little creased.. Red coloured boards with black coloured embossed decorations and titles to the front panel and gilt coloured titles and black coloured illustration to the back strip. This book is about mistaken identities, multiple role switches and no mention of weather! The author dictated this book using a pornographic dictation device, the first author to do so. The book is starting to show signs of age and use. Bumping, rubbing and fraying of the book corners with the underlying board is visible to the lower book corners. Softening, rubbing and fraying of the back strip and there is a 2 1/2 inch split to the rear spine gutter edge. Fading of the back strip along with some marks visible. Staining to the panels along with rubbing. Light age toning of the text block edges and even lighter tanning of the pages. Offset tanning and some foxing to the end pages with previous owners name, with a date of 13/1/93 (1893) to the free front end page. First English Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [9], X - XI, [2], 3 - 258, [34 – of which 32 a further titles from publishing house] pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Dan Beard and Hal Hurst. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; 19th century; Humour. Inventory No: 0288940. .
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- Librería
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 0288940
- Título
- The American Claimant
- Autor
- Twain, Mark ( Clemens, Samuel ) 1835 – 1910
- Ilustrador
- Dan Beard and Hal Hurst
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardcover (Embossed Cloth)
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good Condition
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Dust Jacket
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Chatto and Windus
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1892
- Palabras clave
- BZDB2 Fiction, humorous, 19th century Literature & Literary; 19th century; Humour. Dan Beard and Hal Hurst Unbranded Twain, Mark ( Clemens, Samuel ) 1835 – 1910 The American Claimant
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Humour;
Términos de venta
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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Sobre el vendedor
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
melbourne, Victoria
Sobre Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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- Spine
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
