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Conquering Success, Or Life in Earnest
by Mathews, William
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Dustjacket
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/No Dust jacket. Lovely clean and solid first edition of this scarce book on achieving success in life. Dark green cloth boards with gilt lettering and small leaf decoration on cover with double rule line border in gold. Gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. All gold bright and unchipped. Blind stamped ruled border on rear cover. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Small previous owner name and Merry Christmas neatly penned on front free endpaper. 404 pages with index..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022419
- Title
- Conquering Success, Or Life in Earnest
- Author
- Mathews, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Dustjacket
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1903
- Keywords
- ESSAYS, PHILOSPHY, SUCCESS, WILLIAM MATHEWS, FIRST EDITION, DECORATED AMERICAN TRADE BINDING, DATB
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy; Essays; Decorated American Trade Binding;
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
Biblio member since 2003
Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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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