Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Binding is tight, text is clean and free of marks. Gilt lettering to cover and spine is bright with pastedown picture of Ft. Vincennes to cover. Twelve pp. Ads. Dark olive green cloth binding has faint stains of a whitish substance on the cover and is slightly cocked. Former owner stamp on title page as well as top edge. Minor wear to corners and spine edges. Digital photos available. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 419 pages .

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Bookseller: The Book Lady (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1845
Title: Alice of Old Vincennes
Author: Thompson, Maurice
Illustrator: F. C. Yohn
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: The Bowen-Merrill Company
Place of Publication: Indianapolis
Date Published: 1900
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction;

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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...
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...
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....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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...
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...
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Cocked: Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...