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Campmates. A Story of the Plains
by Munroe, Kirk
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
New York & London: Harper & Bros, 1899. This is the tenth novel written by (Charles) Kirk Munroe (1850-1930), a newspaper reporter, editor, and conservationist. Originally published in 1891; this is a Fine copy of a Later Printing, from 1899. Part of "Harper's Young People Series." Green cloth decorative binding; titles in gilt, with fancy filligre decorations on the spine and front cover. Clean text; 333 pages, with two pages of publisher's adverts in the rear. No dusjacket. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Edition.. Decorative Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002785
- Title
- Campmates. A Story of the Plains
- Author
- Munroe, Kirk
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Harper & Bros
- Place of Publication
- New York & London
- Date Published
- 1899
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Literature;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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