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The Blue Flower
by Van Dyke, Henry
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Webster, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 7x5x1. No jacket. Minor loss to spine head and to spine base, edges rubbed. 1902 Hard Cover. vii, [3], 298, [1] pp. Margaret Armstrong signed binding. Original blue cloth, gilt titles & decorations, top edge gilt. Color frontispiece and plates. A collection of nine short stories: The Blue Flower; The Source; The Mill; Spy Rock; Wood-Magic; The Other Wise Man; A Handful of Clay; The Lost Word; The First Christmas-Tree.
Synopsis
Sometimes short stories are brought together like parcels in a basket. Sometimes they grow together like blossoms on a bush. Then, of course, they really belong to one another, because they have the same life in them.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Yesterday's Muse Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2342173
- Title
- The Blue Flower
- Author
- Van Dyke, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1902
- Size
- 7x5x1
- Weight
- 1.31 lbs
- Keywords
- FICTION AMERICAN SHORT STORIES STORY COLLECTIONS HENRY VAN DYKE MARGARET ARMSTRONG
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About the Seller
Yesterday's Muse Books
Biblio member since 2005
Webster, New York
About Yesterday's Muse Books
Yesterday's Muse Inc. is an independent used & rare bookseller that has been in operation for over 15 years. We opened our first 'brick and mortar' storefront in December of 2008 in our hometown of Webster, NY.Owner Jonathan Smalter is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA), former vice president of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA), both of which are trade organizations created to promote ethical online selling practices, and to encourage continuing education among fellow booksellers. He is also a 2011 graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS). He has nearly 20 years of experience in the book trade, during which time he has become adept at evaluating used and collectible books.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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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