CALIFORNIA SCRAP-BOOK: A REPOSITORY OF USEFUL INFORMATION AND SELECT
de Shuck, Oscar
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Austin, Texas, United States
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Twain, Mark [Clemens, S. L.] Shuck, Oscar, ed. THE CALIFORNIA SCRAP-BOOK: A REPOSITORY OF USEFUL INFORMATION AND SELECT READING. San Francisco: H. H. Bancroft, 1869. First edition. Original sheep, with original black label, gilt. Rebacked with original spine preserved. Text is very clean, crisp and tight. This title is invariably found in terrible condition or wholly rebound. A well-known anthology of newspaper articles, poems, fiction, sketches, essays, and miscellaneous works about California, including works by Bret Harte, John Ruskin(!), and Mark Twain (first printing of his description of the Azore Islands, later included in INNOCENTS ABROAD). Baird-Greenwood 2237. Cowan II:585. Howes S439. BAL 7244 (Harte) and 3315 (Clemens).
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- Mac Donnell Rare Books
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- 19291
- Título
- CALIFORNIA SCRAP-BOOK: A REPOSITORY OF USEFUL INFORMATION AND SELECT
- Autor
- Shuck, Oscar
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Palabras clave
- CLEMENS, S L , CALIFORNIA , HARTE, BRET , RUSKIN, JOHN
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The owner of Mac Donnell Rare Books is a former rare book librarian and widely published bibliographer with more than 40 years experience in rare books. We maintain a fine rare book inventory of 19th and 20th century American and English literary first editions, association copies, and autographs, with a specialty in Mark Twain. We also offer qualified tax and insurance appraisals, and library development consultation.
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- BAL
- Bibliography of American Literature (commonly abbreviated as BAL in descriptions) is the quintessential reference work for any...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- 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...
- 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...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
