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Bret Harte, A Biography
by Richard O'Connor
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Little, Brown and Company, 1966. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1966. First Edition. 331 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over brown cloth with a photographic black and white plate to the middle. Moderate tanning to pages with visible tanning to text block edges. Boards have notable rubbing and minor bumping to corners. Soft crushing to spine ends and visible sunning to spine. Clipped jacket with visible edge wear and light rubbing. There is visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends and heavier sunning to interior.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1628513313BWD
- Title
- Bret Harte, A Biography
- Author
- Richard O'Connor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Date Published
- 1966
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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....
- 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...
- 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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