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The First Christmas
de WALLACE, Lew
- Usado
- First
- Estado
- Ver descripción
- Librería
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1902. First Thus. Octavo (21cm). Original purple cloth, stamped in silver and gilt, top edge gilt, with original grey typographic dust jacket; plain endpapers; [xii],[109]pp; frontispiece and three plates laid down on inserted leaves, with marginal ornaments printed in orange throughout. Bookplate of G. F. Mitchell. Straight and tight, gently rubbed, with fading along edges and base of spine matching damage to jacket, occasional spots of foxing: Very Good. Jacket trimmed at corners, priced $1.25 on spine and front, browned at spine, rubbed and tattered at upper edge, with 2-inch loss at base of spine, else Very Good.
An excerpt from Ben-Hur issued as a gift book, illustrated by William Martin Johnson and printed in two colors. Uncommon in jacket, with only one jacketed copy appearing at auction in the past fifty years.
An excerpt from Ben-Hur issued as a gift book, illustrated by William Martin Johnson and printed in two colors. Uncommon in jacket, with only one jacketed copy appearing at auction in the past fifty years.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 56955
- Título
- The First Christmas
- Autor
- WALLACE, Lew
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Thus
- Editorial
- Harper and Brothers
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1902
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Lorne Bair Rare Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2006
Winchester, Virginia
Sobre Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
