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BACK TO ARCADY
by Allen, Frank Waller
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
-
Deerfield, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Herbert B. Turner & Co., 1905. first edition. hardcover. Fine. Octavo, olive green cloth covers with light green and white decorations and gilt titles. Top edge gilt. Decorated endpapers. Black and white illustrations by I. B. Hazelton tipped in. Green decorative borders around some pages. Cover decoration by Adrian Iorio. No dust jacket. 090617A
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alkahest Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000020935
- Title
- BACK TO ARCADY
- Author
- Allen, Frank Waller
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- Herbert B. Turner & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1905
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Alkahest Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Alkahest Books
Biblio member since 2012
Deerfield, Illinois
About Alkahest Books
Alkahest Books was established in1984. We started as an open shop on Central St. in Evanston, IL, and sold books there until 2002 and later were part of Chicago Rare Book Center which closed in 2017. We are members of the Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association, and IOBA and sell both online and at book fairs. International customers should ask for a shipping quote before ordering as the rates given are only for smaller books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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