BEAUTIFUL JOE'S PARADISE or THE ISLAND OF BROTHERLY LOVE - A Sequel to Beautiful Joe
by Saunders, Marshall
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
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Poplar Grove, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Boston: L.C. Page and Company, 1902. Red hardcover cloth binding with gilt titles and picture pastedown of brindle-colored American Staffordshire like Bulldog (first chapter talks about a bulldog named Ragtime). Corners a bit rubbed with a bit of boards showing, some wear top and bottom of spine. Spine a little bit cocked but overall clean and tight. Inside front hinge just weakening. Illustrated endpapers. 365 pages with ads in back. 1903 gift note on ffep. Tissue intact between title page and frontispiece illustration. Including frontispiece, 15 b/w glossy plates throughout. This sequel to Beautiful Joe describes a world where animals find themselves after death and chronicles the afterlife of many of the animals introduced in Saunders' earlier books.. Illus. by Bull, Charles Livingston. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Deja Vu Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012137
- Title
- BEAUTIFUL JOE'S PARADISE or THE ISLAND OF BROTHERLY LOVE - A Sequel to Beautiful Joe
- Author
- Saunders, Marshall
- Illustrator
- Bull, Charles Livingston
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- L.C. Page and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1902
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- DOG, HUMANE SOCIETY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Dogs - Fiction, Children and Adult;
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
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