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The Early Life of Mr. Man
by Smith, E. Boyd
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Smith, E. Boyd. Oblong 8vo. Unpaginated [47 pp]. Green pictorial paper boards backed in brown cloth, with cover illustration of two cavemen- one shooting a bow and arrow, the other wearing fur and holding a club. Slight bowing and cocking, with moderate soiling and rubbing to boards and spine. Pale yellow endpapers, illustrated with green line drawing of a jungle scene, browned at edges with previous owner's name in pencil to top edge of ffep and flyleaf. Interior toned with some light soiling scattered to edges, several corners creased. 23 colored plates, illustrating ancient civilization.
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Details
- Bookseller
- small volume
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 578
- Title
- The Early Life of Mr. Man
- Author
- Smith, E. Boyd
- Illustrator
- Smith, E. Boyd
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1914
- Keywords
- caveman, homo sapien, ancient, history, illustrated, color plates, dinosaur, cave, bible, rome, greece, egypt, mesopotamia, hunter
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small volume
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About the Seller
small volume
Biblio member since 2023
Providence, Rhode Island
About small volume
Small Volume is based out of Providence, RI. We buy + sell old, rare, odd, unusual, and otherwise collectible books + ephemera.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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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